Baader Meinhof effect, innit.
Can he play as a six?
chatGPT, come up with a message that makes that forum i hate and backstab on every other forum i visit, think i like it…
Which Makati Red?
My team board on BigFooty is mod’ed to within an inch of its life…
Barely post there any more, cliquey as fuck…
Blergh.
And I haven’t posted before this 
@DublinRed Having read your posts on here, I understand your point but disagree with it. There’s a Startrek quote that springs to mind “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few” Discussions about rumours are pretty much futile anyway, as are pre and post match threads. We can’t change what might happen and we certainly can’t change what has happened but we can have a little fun along the way. If you’re here for serious news about the club and a rigid moderation policy, I have a young artist’s ornithological drawings I could interest you in starting at $10,000.
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Now there’s a chocolate bar from my childhood, not had one in ages. Double Deckers were always my fav.
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Double Deckers? Yeah, it was a great programme. I used to watch it on a Saturday morning.
I also liked the Banana Splits. 
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With all due respect, I ask that you maybe re-read my posts. I specially said on a number of occasions that I don’t want a militant (rigid) moderation policy, but rather a Mod to step in when a thread becomes “derailed”.
Since my original post, a squabble has developed in the Unreliable Rumours Thread on the subject of Covid vaccinations, as an example. I’ve already highlighted worse examples such as the religion and SA debates in Fabinho’s thread.
As for “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”… as I outlined in my initial post, I was posting as a means to try “read the room” and see what the general feeling on this is. I’d say more people are in favour of carrying on as we currently do, but there are also enough people who share my opinion that thread derailment could be managed with a slightly firmer hand.
Firmer hand… extreme load… if we’re not careful, we’re going to attract a very different demographic to this forum 
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My longer response was going to be (and so now is) as follows. I’ve not done the maths but I’d imagine there are 30-40 very active posters on here. Prob 100 who do actually post. If a good percentage of those had agreed with you then it’s certainly a point for the site staff to consider. It’s like restaurant reviews, people only really tend to leave one when something bad happens. The fact that this thread isn’t full of people agreeing with you speaks volumes.
We had a load of stick from a certain mod (who I believe is currently revelling in being home) for puns. Threatened with damnation if they continued. So we had a pun thread. Died quicker than a strawberry in a supernova.
I came here originally for authentic and genuine rumours. Discussion of COVID and the political situation in Saudi would have annoyed me too. But over the years we all realise that Liverpool news tends to break a few days before and nobody on here is ITK. It’s just discussion otherwise and that could be about the transfer or the politics of the country the player’s heading to.
The key word there is discussion otherwise the forum dies.
We’ve lost a lot of good posters over the years. The key is for the forum to run in a way that encourages healthy debate by the maximum number of people. I think the current balance is very good. I’ve been a mod on a draconian forum, was almost a full time job. Like imposing photocopier restrictions in a school. Just don’t do it, causes problems you just don’t need.
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I accept my opinion appears to be in the minority, based on the responses in this thread, but the only way to find out if I was in the minority, or the majority, was to pose the question.
It seems some people may have viewed my suggestion a little too black and white, all or nothing, 1 or 10. This was never my intention. My view was to consider moving the moderation dial from 3 up to 4 or 5. A gentle tweak rather than a massive overhaul.
I can take some solace in the fact that there are others who share my views… and even yourself, who seems content with the status quo, gets peeved with some of the derailments.
The water has been tested, while there is appetite for minor change among some, the majority seem content with keeping things as they are. We move on.
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One of the reasons I love this place. Almost always courteous and sensible 
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Just a reminder that there is a middle east thread where anything Saudi related could be discussed more fully.
o.O chongo … it’s Danger Island next.
True but not a thread linked to football. One could argue that bringing football into it would de-rail the thread. There’s the problem.
I get why you were asking mate , and I am sympathetic to your position. Personally , if I do get snared up in a load of off-topic stuff that’s either superfluous or uninteresting then I just scroll through it until something grabs my attention again.