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Originally Posted by Super Ph
i don't think it excessive to ban obnoxious behaviour, but there is a creeping "PC brigade" attitude which seems to neuter debate. the main potential draw of a site like this is "juicy gossip" and strong opinions, and these seem to be clamped down on far more than personal slanging matches. i have just been reading a thread about york going into administration where someone was jumped on for claiming that one euph player sounds better than another.
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By whom? I don't remember seeing that. And the main potential draw
to you might be "juicy gossip and strong opinions" but there's a very short step from there to "malicious gossip and ignorant claptrap". Interestingly some of the meatier threads in the site's history (e.g. King/YBS, Grimey/Webster) were stomped on not by the Mods but by members of the bands concerned desperately trying to stifle speculation and debate (understandably wanting to protect their own bands' reputations). Which leads me to...
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Originally Posted by Super Ph
a secondary effect of the moderation is that there is a lot of really boring trolling. i enjoy reading the more amusing trolls, but these have mostly got bored or banned (some of these guys were playing at the very highest level of our movement, using this site for a bit of light hearted banter, and also had the most to add in terms of insight and gossip)
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Depending which ones you're talking about, they generally don't add anything in terms of "insight and gossip" though, do they? I note that during the brief life of JP's Facebook "gobpiece" the group also fell victim to a few trolls and guess what? Poor old JP didn't like it. You live by the sword, etc....
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