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Hi What is it that you're trying to post, there may be a blocked spam word in your listing, it maybe the word bump.

If it's just another thread on this topic then it will be deleted or Lounged.

As there is already a thread entitled "Revised new - M&S planning application to replace Iceland.." can we use that for the M&S planning discussion and this one for other issues for the councillor to address.

I have removed some posts as it's gone off topic. The topic is "DHFC noise disturbance, evening match"

- Person posted honest recommendation - DulwichFox "called them out" for being dishonest and flagged up previous personal differences and brought up Louisa. - I said I feel sad that person is picked on for an honest review and have a word with DulwichFox. (I've spoken to DF and all's well). - *cue dark clouds, lightning and thunder* Louisa says she is picked on, say it's my choice when people can be disrespectful to other members of the forum and complains that honest people are favoured over her. Louisa, you were confined to the Lounge for persistently taking threads off topic and reducing them to your thoughts on class and gentrification, it was making parts of the forum unpleasant for others. At least you now have your stage and your own personal spotlight focused on you in the Lounge, lighten up and enjoy it.

This might help http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?9,1162589

I moved it to the Lounge based on the title, I don't always read the actual post. I see there's now another thread about this in the ED Issues section.

Done

If you add an asterix '*' it'll search for four letter words beginning with the first three letters. Otherwise it works ok in my IE 11, try upgrading yours to the latest version or use a different browser (depending on which problem area you want to avoid of course).

To put the post by the original poster in context, the post was: --------- Date: 9/29/2015 9:28 AM Author: adonirum Subject: X-Factor Rubbish Had to endure Mrs. adonirum watching X-Factor on catch-up last night. Can someone tell me why it appears to have such a proliferation of shirt-lifting, back-buggering shit-stabbers on it this year? --------- There was no mention that it was a "discussion point" and there is no way we're allowing that sort of thing on the forum and so the post was removed and adonirum was immediately banned (but reinstated after a behind the scenes discussion). I'm showing this now to help give people a fuller understanding of what what was posted and why we took the action we did. There's free speech and there's free speech. You are free to shout "I've got a bomb and I'm going to blow up this plane!" when flying at 30,000 feet but you have to take the consequences when the other passengers beat the living shit out of you, before you have a chance to say "I was only doing it to make a discussion point.". On that note, a difficult situation to monitor is when someone reports a message with "I think (person/group) will find this offensive.." and we don't know if they will. Does the reporter know this or do they just think that? Do we act on someone else's opinion when they're not actually part of that group? Sometimes we research a bit, the case of the word 'Pikey' is something that springs to mind and yes, the group referred to do find it offensive and so where used maliciously it's acted upon. It is a grey area but one of the forums' aims (especially the Lounge area) is to allow open and free debate within the constraints of a forum for East Dulwich. Sometimes we get it wrong but the we're open to appeals.

Hi No, it is still there and working, although it has limitations e.g. it cannot search on three letter words or less.

Although this is not specific to East Dulwich we'll keep it in the ED Issues section as there are lots of discussions about planning. I'm only saying this as there will be other threads started about Southwark which I'll move to the Lounge and the original poster will complain "but you allow other non-ED Southwark discussions" etc etc.

Although this is not specific to East Dulwich we'll keep it in the ED Issues section as there are lots of discussions about planning.

Hi We do move threads so I expect the burglar one is still around somewhere. Apologies about your film thread, it was deactivated but I'm not sure why. I've reactivated it.

Hopefully it'll be able to stop attacks before they happen by plugging into the http://www.stopforumspam.com/ filter. We're not sure when the new site will go live but currently we're looking at the end of the month.

Just for future reference please could you report the message by clicking "Report This Message" like other people have done. We see those and act on them. Starting a post with my name in capitals doesn't work, and it makes me scratch my head in wonder, but thank you for trying. (For anyone who didn't see there was a spam attack where they posted about 25 messages, they've now been removed.)

Why not start a discussion in the Lounge about the definition of community? Why not start a discussion in the ED issues areas asking if ED has a community? (Should all gatherings of local people be stopped to make people go and tidy elderly neighbours' gardens instead? Or could they be done in parallel?) Either way, this discussion is about Lidl in Dulwich, please keep it on topic.

Please discuss the roadworks in Lordship Lane at end of North Cross Road and not each others' opinions about class, gentrification etc etc.

What were they about and what section(s) were they posted in?

It's about a shop in Dulwich Village, not a shop in East Dulwich. Simple.

The cycling one originally had a Southwark title, now it's been changed and I know it's about ED it's in the General Isses section. The West Dulwich Sainsbury one has been moved to the Lounge (I've been away and this slipped through)

I'll admit the search function is a bit rubbish, with the new software version of the forum coming soon(ish) it'll be loads better.

Hi EarthCitizen, it's strange how a search on your name "xerxes phillips" and SAM/Share a Mortgage shows rather a lot of results. It's almost like you're committing fraud by false representation.

You cannot delete your post but you can go the post, click edit, then replace the text (subject and body) with something else. Like a - that will work.

There definitely won't be avatars but there maybe smileys, hope that's ok.