Glassheart
Dormant account
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2013
- Location
- Leeds
Free the weatherfield one!
If you guys want to piss me off - well you just did it. You have turned the forum into a circus - and I not only don't appreciate that, but it damages the worthiness of this forum to newbies, visitors, and casino reps.
Yesterday I shut down the Bonanza thread since I had a load of "Report a Posts" to wade through concerning that thread, plus there was nothing being discussed about that game. The thread had spiraled into a juvenile hissy fit on what one can or can't say here: tw%$ or c*&%!!!
Really! WTF! You senior members should know better than this. This is why we have the Attic to post such nonsense. And yeah, I get it, bantering is good - but after several pages of that and the complaints that ensued, it was 100% derailed and yeah, I did not have the time yesterday to pick through the thread and move those posts.
All it would have taken is a PM to me asking if I could reopen the thread, and I would have done that today after cleaning it up. Now I have a load of more work to do because of some inconsiderate members who have turned this place into their private playground.
You see Bryan, this is the exact problem the Bonanza Thread effort tried to highlight.
Why is suddenly everything taken so serious at CM? The operation was done at a quiet time where not many members/visitors and most certainly even less casino reps were online to avoid chocking the forum at peak hours.
Instead of seeing this with a humorous eye which this operation meant to be, it becomes yet another "Who do you think you are?" thing like it has been seen numerous times in the last few months. Well, I for one am nothing more than a human being and have not more standing in your forum then any other member but I am just one of many who are worried that the forum is taking a turn for the worse when it comes to chatting/bantering/humouring etc in the threads which leads to people, often longstanding members, posting increasingly less.
But then equally, I for one am also fed up with almost each and every topic being derailed with one sentence responses by the resident "comedians" or responses containing just moving images, emoticons etc.
When you want to read topics, some of which are quite interesting and serious, then it is frustrating to having to skip the totally non relevant stuff.
For me, the balance needs to be right.
Sure, balance is needed. But most threads go off-topic and return again, it has always been like that since I joined CM. Was never a big issue until lately.
So why the sudden change?
The posting of many Bonanza threads and folk participating in them was no orchestrated event as far as I am aware so I am unsure why the mafia comment?
Once it was obvious to me why Harry was posting them I got on board and encouraged others to try to get the threads in order,which I thought was a fun thing to achieve. I just think that there should be some consistency where folk can be confident that their posts will be met with some degree of fairness as apposed to it depending on who you are
I get both sides of the story here:
The bickering and petty reporting of trivial issues is one thing - Unless a member is being personally attacked, I don't see a need to burden Bryan with 20 reports a day all because goatwack used the Tw@t word.
We are all adults here - We can't expect Bryan / Max / Dunover to play headmaster and come running every time someone uses a swear word.
I have been around on this site for a long time. It HAS become petty, to the extent that I just think - Why on earth can't we get along? I was probably more vocal in my earlier days, had my battles, had my say and moved on. This is a casino forum, not a place to come and fight amongst one another - fight the rogues, cheats and liars - not your fellow members!!
@Harry_BKK - I get your humor. I'm sure that you did not intend any malice. You are NOT that type of person and never have been for as long as I have been here. However, If i were the forum owner, I would be taken aback by the amount of threads that were created.
Sure - they were done in humour and to prove a point, but adding 10 threads that the forum owner would need to come and mop up after the party wouldn't really leave anyone too pleased.
We are all playing in Bryans backyard here and sometimes just a little bit of restraint on minor issues will probably be hugely favorable to them in getting to things they want to do ...
And to other members here - Please stop picking a fight with Dunover. I honestly believe that the man is a GOOD guy. He WILL help you should you require assistance. Just because we disagree on issues - it doesn't make that person your enemy!!
Nate
i appreciate unrelated pictures, and gifs are scattered over different subjects.. and it adds up over time.
but its not, at least to me, like you get pages on the same thread dedicated to the stuff. often even ppl sharing their thought on something in an attempted humorous kind of way, which in a way is quicker to go past than having to read than a paragraph explaining the image users thoughts. (thoughts which, i can well imagine, many people being too scared to even share an opinion in fear it annoys people who are not interested in it..)
christ, I'd hate to be a sales persom in a shop dealing with a returned item, if someone brought a book, and half way through it there was a moving picture of which they didnt want to waste time skipping past..
safe to say i will respect peoples 'feels' and personally post no more, since i am guilty of this crime.
Maybe he is a nice guy and I will take your word for it that he probably is. I do find some of what he posts offensive but I am not trigger happy and leave well alone until it vanishes in the mist as others post. For me on the outside looking in, I have read comments about what other people have found offensive and it is permitted, whilst others are banned for what I consider less offensive on the whole - where is the consistency?
Right now there appears to be a group divide of them and us!
IF your swear word is directed at another member of this forum in a way that is to belittle them, then it's not a good option.
Remember people - We have the IGNORE function. If you are tired of Goatwacks humor - please use the function, so you don't need to see his content and be offended.
Nate
Replying to @Nate & @lockinlove
1) The forum doesn't have enough active members as it is, so asking people to stay on topic is just one way of again stopping people posting. If the thread is serious then keep it serious but if the thread is generic or a slot based thread then anything should be game.
2) No one is attacking Dunover, what people are pointing out is his tone of language and posts is allowed and others get pulled up on it, that is why his name is constantly used as a example, it's nothing against Dunover personally it just points out the double standards that exist here.
Finally, this is slots, its a fun RIGGED game for us all to lose on long term, sadly it slowly becoming a platform for people to post their affiliate videos or get their youtube or twitch name out their. Some of us are just regular players and want a laugh and a joke on here, I find it comical people asking to keep the bonanza thread on topic? on topic of what? whats to be serious about? this isn't sports betting discussing which team or horse wins, it's pressing a button and nothing more.
No edge, no advantage, no strategy or statistics will give a advantage, so this serious talk I am really missing. Why can't people lose money, rant,discuss and joke about the games they enjoy?
Geez, there's no grey area here is there.
Us and them simple as, you decide which side you're on
Ignore, report, run to teacher, getting very tiresome. I for one find it takes less than a second to scroll past a post you don't want to read, slightly longer but still as effective to click 'X' top right.
You've only go to look at certain posts and the associated 'likes' to see who's in who's army
Can I be in your army
Auto enrolled as my right hand woman without a second thought
Ps: you look great in that uniform