| Archive for justcycling.myfastforum.org Just Cycling |
| Mrs John Murphy |
New Forum Admins to deal with spammersPlease vote |
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| berck |
Absolutely! | ||||||
| Bartali |
Thanks MJM.
Yes ... very much needed! |
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| levi |
agree | ||||||
| Biosphere |
Looks like the spammers are voting too 
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| HuwB |
Or, maybe the odd lurker? 
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| Slapshot 3 |
yeah haven't heard from Sooty in a couple of weeks...
Finally online at home...fantastic, one connection done 3 to go...... |
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| Bartali |
Could the "No" voters announce themselves and explain their thoughts please? Many thanks. | ||||||
| Me, a fan? |
Down with spammers! Personally I'm tired of reading spam and "bump." | ||||||
| berck |
Me too. We are getting hit again over the the GT forum | ||||||
| Mrs John Murphy |
It would be nice to know why people think that we don't need the spammers banned. |
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| HuwB |
Well, the spamming we've had, overnight in the GT thread is awful.
Clogging up some of the best threads. It's time to act. There is no positive side to not setting up a new admin group. We now have 3 no's, but no negative feedback. Best guess is therefore, that it's the spammers. |
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| billgull |
Please let us get this mess sorted out ASAP!
What happened overnight on the GT Thread is disgusting! Show the bore the door! |
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| TNG |
Have been lurking for a while, not signng up as it seemed a mass exodus may have been on the cards. However, given this sudden new direction (bravo MJM, and Slapshot for his stirling efforts to setup alternative homes) it would seem the time is ripe to sign up and cast my Aye vote!
PS To save anyone wondering, TNG stands for Thick Northern Git.... |
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| HuwB |
A welcome, Git! 
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| Bartali |
Welcome TNG .... the more the merrier! | ||||||
| last km |
TNG where you from, we got a manc on here and me........although I now have a foot in each camp..see profile
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| TNG |
No worries....from the right (or should that be left?) side of the Pennines as well!
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| Slapshot 3 |
Is that like batting for both sides..... 
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| bianchigirl |
Me and Bart are from the right - in both senses - side of the Pennines, so welcome TNG 
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| berck |
Welcome Git. Glad to have you around. | ||||||
| bianchigirl |
Yes, we should have new admins and I reckon Slapshot and Berck are just the people for the job
Like a few others here, I'm willing to be a lower level back up - would think Kathy would be good |
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| Bartali |
Absolutely ... but we won't hold it against you TNG.
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| Nolte |
32 voters? i wasn't aware we had 32 people here?
welcome TNG |
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| Biosphere |
Well it's up to 5 now I'd be very surprised if the spammers were actually people logging on - they'd have starved to death a long time ago if they didn't automate their spamming to hit 1000's of sites for the bit of follow through that puts food on the table. IMO, the Nos are sufficiently happy with the current level of spamming (and perhaps more importantly the total lack of admin) to not want the change. It would be good of them to explain why so a debate could be had, but it looks like that's not an option. Oh well . . . |
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| kathy |
well, there are wummers on here as well as spammers!
I'm quite happy that there are enough responsible people willing to take on the admin without putting my name forward. But the offer still stands to help out if ever the need arises. Welcome, TNG. |
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| cadence |
I guess the fan boys can kiss our ass goodbye.... | ||||||
| HuwB |
I don't think any new admins would get away with that. We aren't exactly a large forum! I actually think that if "fanboys" got their accounts removed, a fair few of us "haters" would complain. Besides, those who are up to take over, all advocate a non moderdated, free for all, slugfest approach. Just like it was, when Berg was around.
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| last km |
Me and Bart ..
Thats not very good England BG...
Surely its Bart and myself, or Both Bart and I ??? Answers please on a postcard to tewkesbury.com innit |
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| pantanifan |
I voted in favour of new admins, but I think there may be a bit of "revenge" inspiring the no voters as well... |
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| TNG |
Thanks for the welcome, but will not rise to the bait....as a newbie I have no intention of re-starting the Wars of the Roses!
Some of my best friends came from Yorkshire....but not that many though!!
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| TNG |
Interesting! Good response Huwb, but it might be helpful if the admin volunteers were to address this particular issue as well. |
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| Mrs John Murphy |
As I have said I view the role of any admin to be limited to: clearing up spammed threads (ie spam removal) and the banning of spammers accounts and IPs. And if there are any board features that need to be updated, implemented then doing that.
I don't think anyone wants to see interference in issues of 'taste' - so the fanboys are all quite safe. Unless of course you start hawking shoes or porn... The whole point of this forum was to avoid the plague of random moderation and the best way to avoid that is to continue to have no moderation but to have admins to ban spammers. |
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| Biosphere |
Hello 
Agree completely. I'd leave if people started getting banned for their positions on cycling. The only thing I currently want addressed is spammers mucking up threads and I was happy to volunteer because it's a trivial overhead. The policy towards non spamming posters has been discussed to an extent. http://justcycling.myfastforum.org/about3611.html I don't know how long you've been lurking but there were previously issues with posters creating multiple IDs and disrupting threads (sock puppets). If that happened again and was a problem then I'd be in favour of the admins having a quite PM in the ear of the offending party (I presume there are admin logs that make it easy to identify who's responsible) and asking them to behave. I don't really care about naming and shaming or banning in these instances either. I don't even care about going through the old logs and figuring out who the sock puppets were back then. Just want a spam free forum going forward. I presume the overwhelming majority do too, so here's hoping people take the 2 mins to vote. |
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| kathy |
+1, Bio.
If you look at the memberlist, I suspect we also have a couple of people using fake ID's joining just in order to put negative votes on here. Would 'Guiness' for instance care to identify him/herself? Apologies, Guiness, if you're a bonafide new member! |
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| last km |
so here's hoping people take the 2 mins to vote.
Is there a place up to vote yet ? |
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| mr shifter |
What not another one. ! Red, White or up with Maffy. ???? |
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| Bartali |
He's a red one Mr S. Oh well .....
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| berck |
+1 MJM
+1 Bio |
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| mr shifter |
Oh, I didn't know you knew him so well. 
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| cardinal guzman |
First things first - the right side of the pennines is the north side - everything north of Bakewell I'd say?
To business - if it's an admin that we're getting to ditch the spam, bad adverts, and dead accounts, I'll support any of the candidates as they are all good. I will make an arbitrary vote if it's a condition of getting an admin? If anyone gets modded for any reason I'll be closing my membership - which may indeed be an enticement to mod someone I suppose but there it is. Happy bommy night! |
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| bianchigirl |
Just having me homemade bonfire toffee now
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| cardinal guzman |
I had some earlier - my teeth are still hurting!
Looking forward to some black peas tomorrow! Yummity yum. |
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