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He was very amusing. But now he has been banned then we will all need to head on over to the other forum to get a fix, which is obviously what Louisiana is doing. I think his posting was very badly handled. You have quite a lot of emphatic opinions for a moderator don't you Sean?

cate Wrote:

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> Are you bored Louisiana?


No Cate. I just happened to be on WDF - a bit of a rarity for me - to post info about an event this week, and saw his post bang at the top of the home page. You couldn't miss it really.

cate Wrote:

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> He was very amusing. But now he has been banned

> then we will all need to head on over to the other

> forum to get a fix, which is obviously what

> Louisiana is doing. I think his posting was very

> badly handled. You have quite a lot of emphatic

> opinions for a moderator don't you Sean?


You may have found his posts amusing Cate but I felt quite injured by the various comments he made about me. I'd prefer if he wasn't banned just yet anyway, so I could respond to him and him to me. I don't believe a human being can be really that nasty without a good reason. I'd like to understand what it is.

louisiana Wrote:

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> cate Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Are you bored Louisiana?

>

> No Cate. I just happened to be on WDF - a bit of a

> rarity for me - to post info about an event this

> week, and saw his post bang at the top of the home

> page. You couldn't miss it really.



Just had a look on there and couldn't see anything by him so he must have been banned......

Administrator Wrote:

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> I too would have been sympathetic to his cause,

> most people just say "sorry, I didn't realise, do

> you mind.." and I usually say it's fine. But not

> with this one, he was straight in there with the

> "you're so precious" this, "I've been singled out"

> that.

>

> Added: Unfortunately I do have to draw a fuzzy

> line around East Dulwich as the boundary for

> residential section.



Don't think he posted that until you had deleted his posts three times without an explanation. Or so he said.

Narnia Wrote:

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> cate Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > He was very amusing. But now he has been banned

> > then we will all need to head on over to the

> other

> > forum to get a fix, which is obviously what

> > Louisiana is doing. I think his posting was

> very

> > badly handled. You have quite a lot of

> emphatic

> > opinions for a moderator don't you Sean?

>

> You may have found his posts amusing Cate but I

> felt quite injured by the various comments he made

> about me. I'd prefer if he wasn't banned just yet

> anyway, so I could respond to him and him to me. I

> don't believe a human being can be really that

> nasty without a good reason. I'd like to

> understand what it is.



You feel injured? Because of the Keltic Mafia crack?

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> >

> well let's not question THAT source

>

> You seem to be suggesting that people get banned

> all the time for no reason cate - seems a bit odd

> to me. I mean, you're still here intcha?



Really not sure how you have come up with that idea. I haven't suggested any such thing. I can see how he felt aggrieved that his post about his house was deleted three times without an explanation. If I had advertised a house to let in Nunhead and the post kept getting deleted I would have been upset not to get an explanation when there were other properties not in East Dulwich being advertised. Even Keef said he felt sympathetic towards him. I notice that someone has changed the blurb at the top of the bit about Property in East Dulwich following my suggestion.

  • Administrator

Cate, it is the "East Dulwich" forum. It is the Residential Property in "Easy Dulwich" section. We remove posts about Brixton, Herne Hill, Brockley, Kent etc all the time from various parts of the forum (especially the business section) and we do not have time to tell all those people to read the title of the forum/section. The guy believed he was singled out, he was not. When he asked for an explanation he got one.


As a frequent user of the forum, would you be willing to volunteer your time to contact every person and company whose post we remove? We would supply you with their username and their message and you could PM each of them on our behalf, we would be very grateful and I think they would be too.

  • Administrator

Hi Sharon, I would say they are all just on the periphery of East Dulwich. The boundary is a casual affair, it is a fuzzy borderline and there will be some inconsistencies, especially as this is a voluntarily run forum. We don't have the resources to create a defined line and then monitor each and every post to see that they are within those boundaries, oh just think of the workload!


Edited to add: Just to help put it in perspective we get 4,000 people a day on the forum and about 600 messages posted per day, there is no way we can monitor each and every one.

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