What was the name of that hotel, again?
What was the name of that hotel, again?
Ask Scottish. He can probably send you the brochure and tell you about the app that pings every time a room becomes available.
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I perfectly agree - but have to add the proviso that obvious faults are actually picked up. I think Moses has done and continues to do a fantastic job. He readily admits, though, that English is not his native language and cannot pick up some of what is written or the subtleties behind it. That is totally understandable. So that leaves just one moderator.Originally Posted by Surfcrest
Since you have raised the issue, I regret I have to bring up the matter of sglad where his troll-like status was very quickly raised by several posters (not by me, though - I kept my suspicions to myself). Later, when he began to make obvious errors and started throwing out insults to other posters, I wrote to you and Moses to the effect that I believed he had to be a troll - that there was no possibility of his being a young Singaporean student studying in Chiang Mai, and I provided specific reasoning based on my having lived in a Chinese society for two decades. That sms was sent on February 5. Moses kindly replied. Without betraying a confidence, that was merely re technical issues. So the sglad hydra was permitted to continue posting for a further 14 days, spreading more and more lies and unsubtle vitriol until I set the trap which outed him and his hydra partner sugar daddy. You then finally banned him.
With the greatest respect, detective work on content did pick up his troll/hydra status but moderation waited a further two weeks before taking any action. Had I not set the trap, I'm pretty certain that sugardaddy would have stayed out of the picture and, for all we know, sglad might still be posting here. So there is definitely an issue - and perhaps even a conflict – between posters who are identifiable by technical means and those by content, posters who simply lie and then build on that lie to target other posters.
I believe every poster here should have the right to identify inconsistencies in posting, the more so when an original poster goes on to use vitriol when attempting to give answers which themselves only add fuel to the inconsistencies. An analysis of posts should surely be part and parcel of the job of moderation - as it was recently on gaythailand and is all the time on the other Board.
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"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
The sglad / sugargrandpa case was quite different. For all I know, they may have been two separate and legit members. Something was flagged to my attention with respect to their posting activity and rather than doing a complete investigation into what it was, I thought it best to sever the ties rather than to comb through it. There just was too much to go through and too much happening that seemed off, with respect to each of their posts. I figured that if either was legit, they'd come back...which it appears, neither has.
While I do get PM's from time to time about this member or that, from that member or this...I generally don't use that as a guideline. There are more technical means that are completely unbiased to what I or anyone else, might suspect.
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That I perfectly understand. But if content is not considered and a poster is not in fact a hydra but merely a troll trying to cause some form of havoc, can technical means alone root him out - despite alerts from members? I am merely curious - because I do think it is an important issue. A group of posters was recently banned on gaythailand. From what I gather (and I may be wrong), it seems it was what the filth they wrote that triggered the bans and not a technical issue.
Oh come on. The last thing this forum needs is another Soapbox Sally!
Yea Founty. Please try and keep your replies to 2000 words or less. Many thanks. And please stop talking about Sglad/Sugagrandpa as if you hunted down a serial killer in Old Chinatown.
Surfcrest. Detective work is fun so while it's understandable you wanting to keep it all for yourself it's equally so that everyone likes to play. As Churchill (I think) called the intel business.
"The wall of mirrors."
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1,999 maximum it is, arsenal! And did you mention someone named sglad?
Churchill made some very interesting remarks. "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on," is particularly apt in the light of this discussion. "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result," also comes to mind!
I see MFAS is being his usual boring self!
I seriously doubt that Churchill would have referred to "pants" - which still generally means underwear in the UK and in his era would have almost exclusively meant that.
I prefer the alternative attributation i.e. to Mark Twain - although even he did not say "pants" but rather "shoes"
Also worth mentioning that Churchill rarely got *his* pants on before late afternoon and at least a bottle of champagne
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