Quaker2001

"Please figure out a way to do something about this because it has gotten way out of hand."

To be fair, Rols was given mod status a few years ago to help clean up the forum when it was getting a lot of spam from bots. It's not really his responsibility to police the forum anymore than it is mine or yours. I think he is and has been deleting a few posts and it'd be great if is was possible for him to just suspend said user and explain to the mod later why he'd done it, but really this is something for the mod to deal with.

I've been a bit of a dilemma over the whole thing. As Rob pointed out, I don't really have the license to moderate as such. Really I'm just supposed to sweep away the spambots. On the other hand, of course I think you know where my sympathies lay. I also have reported and sent suggestions to RobL about the situation over the past week, but all that's come of that is silence and a few posts being deleted. 

Now, I have acted as Rob suggest over the past few days. I did delete a few posts earlier in the week, yesterday I deleted a sh!tload and this morning (my time) I've just deleted another handful. I've tried to be even-handed in doing that, in case RobL comes down hard on me for it (if he even notices). And yes, I did notice Truff's dig at me yesterday - my first instinct was to jump in, but on reflection I'm determined not to get myself worked up so much over his tantrums. And anyway, any refutation I might have posted would have just fuelled him to lash back.

I'm not sure what the answer is. I wish RobL would at least give him an official warning, if not more. I'll continue to do some surreptitious deleting when he goes overboard - though sometimes I think it might be better for him to dig his own grave. Again though, I thought he had crossed that line with his justifications for calling people faggots, but that report yielded the mildest of responses from RobL. Anyway, if I get demoted for deleting so be it - at least I'd be back on the same even keel as the rest of you again (though I'd miss some of there nice modding tools). 

We Brits say 'full stop'. We associate 'period' with either a passage of time or the female reproductive cycle!

I was about to cry with the Rio montage!

To be honest, considering he's on 3 posts a day, I find it amazing that people don't just ignore him if they don't want to engage. Convinced some enjoy arguing with him over pointless things. Sigh...

I'm with Rob on this. He's easy to ignore. And he has so few posts, it's not even really annoying any more. Anyway, he and others seem to have settled into a nice, predictable routine. He makes 4-4 posts a day, usually dumb or pointlessly argumentative. And then others take tag team turns to answer back and give him the trigger to start the process again the next day. Everyone wins.

That's the beauty of it.. he's only here for about an hour a day, makes his hit and run posts, and then we all go back to our normal conversations for the next 23 or so hours.

Erm....you counted? I hope this is a joke, otherwise I wonder who here is really wasting their time!!

Forgot the winking smiley, but seriously, you actually counted?!

Well, to be honest, many here have wasted hours of their lives telling Tony what not to do, to no avail. I admire your persistence, but it really is a waste of time.

I hope he responds to both of those beautiful messages. I need some entertainment...

Is it worth 1 of his 4 posts per day though? Gosh, I sure hope so!

It backfired, mods cut out comments after Sir Rols'

I've never had SPAM

I hear it's good

he certainly could do with a few weeks suspension to think some things over. or at least to brainstorm a new topic of conversation if nothing else.

I'm not really all that bothered by it. I can keep posting memes and be perfectly happy to react to their nonsense that way. But it's not good for the site and it's not like we can ignore them if others are still talking about it.

And honestly, krow is right.. I almost think for his own good that the best thing that could happen for Tony would be to not be able to post here. Obviously not my call, but it would almost be doing him a favor IMO

WTF is going on?

What happened?

Cuz it went from the B/Z 2022 thread, to the USOC/LA 2024 thread.

seconded

thirded

cats

LOL

seriously, you should of told this forum that like two years ago.

I know.. I must be bias or something (just to note, that's a knock on everyone who does that, not just 1 person)

What, everyone who types "bias" when they mean "biased"?

The London Olympic Park!!!!!!!

Wouldn't be a proper trip to England without a little rain, now would it

Very little of it, hence the massive crowds.

And your fellow ESU brethren stand with you!

\o/ I believe!!! \o/

Good luck, they are going to need it!

Quite possibly the worst cheer in all of sports.

Organized chants are not 1 of this country's strong points

Why's that? Can't decide if you're a skeptic of American bids or a flag-waving patriot? Come on FYI, you have to know what you are!

lol

It's the best source of information which is why I'm still here. Ignoring unpleasant people helps I find...

Not put, 'shove' into other people's mouth

Very prophetic status update of mine.. proving to be quite true

Doesn't seem to be anything new, though. Same ole' tactics if you ask me.

Agree to disagree

We should make a petition to ban some words and expressions.

London

perhaps we should have pointed out it wasn't st. george's day in america when you wished this whole forum a happy one.

Like I said.. a bunch of mothers