This place definitely is DEAD these days

[Eerie Decent]

On a thread about what has become wrong with this website, literally a couple of back and forths in true traditional WHO style and what it's always been known for, and it gets locked. Like the Jota thread, it's the only thread that's getting any proper traction.

I'm beginning to think Manuel had the right idea. This place is being turned into KUMB.

[Mike Oxsaw]

So what on here could be funnier, what, indeed be more in the true spirit of WHO, than a site "face", a "proper, I've-done-more-for-West-Ham-than-you''ve-taken-breaths"  poster letting a site no-mark boil their piss?

[Tomshardware]

Fuck off.

[Eerie Decent]

We all know the posters that get involved in all that together. That is not what happened, or was about to happen, not in the slightest, there was absolutely no need to lock the thread.
 

[Gank]

If it is possible to do this at all, the solution might be to lock an individual poster out of an individual thread. Once it starts going down that road we all know it's heading towards, one poster is locked out of the thread and if the other poster keeps going on about it when the first guy loses the right to reply, he gets locked too. He can still read it as it might be about West Ham, but he can't post on it because he started to ruin it earlier.

So all it is really is the removal of the reply button for one person on one thread, but like I said I don't know if that is easy to implement or even possible at all.

[THUNDERCLINT]

Encouraging weak cunts to grass up fellow West Ham fans, on a football fucking messageboard, that used to be a good laugh and didn't take itself too seriously, a free for all for old school West Ham fans who could dish it out and take it back over pretty much anything, now turned into nothing more than a transfer rumours website SAFE SPACE for minges.

Congratulations stubbo. Top work.

Good laugh? a gaggle of retards spamming up every thread with the same shit every day doesn't qualify. Perhaps you should of have got the thumb out your arse and made your own website when it was needed where  no one tries to pull you up on your tedious repetitive shit, you won't of course.

That is the KUMBest post I've ever read on here.

 You utter KUMBstain.

[THUNDERCLINT]

Encouraging weak cunts to grass up fellow West Ham fans, on a football fucking messageboard, that used to be a good laugh and didn't take itself too seriously, a free for all for old school West Ham fans who could dish it out and take it back over pretty much anything, now turned into nothing more than a transfer rumours website SAFE SPACE for minges.

Congratulations stubbo. Top work.

 

 

stubbo-adminge?

[Mr Anon]

Encouraging weak cunts to grass up fellow West Ham fans, on a football fucking messageboard, that used to be a good laugh and didn't take itself too seriously, a free for all for old school West Ham fans who could dish it out and take it back over pretty much anything, now turned into nothing more than a transfer rumours website SAFE SPACE for minges.

Congratulations stubbo. Top work.

Good laugh? a gaggle of retards spamming up every thread with the same shit every day doesn't qualify. Perhaps you should of have got the thumb out your arse and made your own website when it was needed where  no one tries to pull you up on your tedious repetitive shit, you won't of course.

[Mike Oxsaw]

The site still has it's humour, however I will concede that seeing those funny moments becomes a tad more difficult if you deliberately but unintentionally make yourself the butt of the joke.

[Nutsin]

It's very easy to mark the first post....just report it using the button to report and state that's the reason. 

OK, thanks. Little bit "grassy" for me but if it helps stop the triggering, I'm game.

Just flag when it should be moved to the sewer thread. It's more advising given we don't have mods who can be actively monitoring these things.  Unless it's libellous no one is getting in trouble....just helps us keep the site more functional for more people.

Let’s all hope you include all the unwell kiddy fiddling sympathizers in that bracket.

[Eerie Decent]

Encouraging weak cunts to grass up fellow West Ham fans, on a football fucking messageboard, that used to be a good laugh and didn't take itself too seriously, a free for all for old school West Ham fans who could dish it out and take it back over pretty much anything, now turned into nothing more than a transfer rumours website SAFE SPACE for minges.

Congratulations stubbo. Top work.

[stubbo-admin]

I hear and fully understand that.

Maybe what is required is the ability to mark a post as the starting point of the descent - a little simple bit of root cause analysis that doesn't stop when it looks like it's going to end up not providing someone with the answer they want.

I'd also be happy with being able to stick my responses to such posts in the sewer, but it's not obvious to me, at least, how to do that easily with a link to the sewer people can ignore if they wish.

It's very easy to mark the first post....just report it using the button to report and state that's the reason. 

OK, thanks. Little bit "grassy" for me but if it helps stop the triggering, I'm game.

Just flag when it should be moved to the sewer thread. It's more advising given we don't have mods who can be actively monitoring these things.  Unless it's libellous no one is getting in trouble....just helps us keep the site more functional for more people.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Frankly it's nothing (from my perspective) to do with what is said....it's that it descends into that same back and forth on every thread, which detracts from those actually wanting to debate the topic the thread is about and for those trying to read the discussion. 

That's the issue. From my perspective, keep the topic contextual, so those who want to discuss can actually do sonwothout having to navigate what is frankly thread spam.

I hear and fully understand that.

Maybe what is required is the ability to mark a post as the starting point of the descent - a little simple bit of root cause analysis that doesn't stop when it looks like it's going to end up not providing someone with the answer they want.

I'd also be happy with being able to stick my responses to such posts in the sewer, but it's not obvious to me, at least, how to do that easily with a link to the sewer people can ignore if they wish.

It's very easy to mark the first post....just report it using the button to report and state that's the reason. 

OK, thanks. Little bit "grassy" for me but if it helps stop the triggering, I'm game.

[stubbo-admin]

Some poster on here are far too precious and up their own perfect-model-citizen arses to be posting on here.

They're words exchanged between posters who don't know each other. That is all.

How can someone possibly let that get to them unless they really believe others know who they really are in the real world.

It's just sticks & stones. Always was, always will be. Entirely your problem if you choose to let words hurt you.

 

Frankly it's nothing (from my perspective) to do with what is said....it's that it descends into that same back and forth on every thread, which detracts from those actually wanting to debate the topic the thread is about and for those trying to read the discussion. 

That's the issue. From my perspective, keep the topic contextual, so those who want to discuss can actually do sonwothout having to navigate what is frankly thread spam.

I hear and fully understand that.

Maybe what is required is the ability to mark a post as the starting point of the descent - a little simple bit of root cause analysis that doesn't stop when it looks like it's going to end up not providing someone with the answer they want.

I'd also be happy with being able to stick my responses to such posts in the sewer, but it's not obvious to me, at least, how to do that easily with a link to the sewer people can ignore if they wish.

It's very easy to mark the first post....just report it using the button to report and state that's the reason. 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Some poster on here are far too precious and up their own perfect-model-citizen arses to be posting on here.

They're words exchanged between posters who don't know each other. That is all.

How can someone possibly let that get to them unless they really believe others know who they really are in the real world.

It's just sticks & stones. Always was, always will be. Entirely your problem if you choose to let words hurt you.

 

Frankly it's nothing (from my perspective) to do with what is said....it's that it descends into that same back and forth on every thread, which detracts from those actually wanting to debate the topic the thread is about and for those trying to read the discussion. 

That's the issue. From my perspective, keep the topic contextual, so those who want to discuss can actually do sonwothout having to navigate what is frankly thread spam.

I hear and fully understand that.

Maybe what is required is the ability to mark a post as the starting point of the descent - a little simple bit of root cause analysis that doesn't stop when it looks like it's going to end up not providing someone with the answer they want.

I'd also be happy with being able to stick my responses to such posts in the sewer, but it's not obvious to me, at least, how to do that easily with a link to the sewer people can ignore if they wish.

Maybe it's possible to add a "Reply in the sewer" button/option that creates a link?

[northbankfrank]

Stubbo, you're basically saying that the only solution is to ban them. As you say, there are about ten people who cause most of the issues. Just ban them then. I guarantee that the only people who won't be happy about it are the ones worried that they might be next.

 

 

No point in banning the tedious repetitive people who undermine the excellent efforts of Stubbo.  The bores live their lives through this site so they'll only pop up under a new user id. The site is doomed. Doomed I tell thee.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Oxsaw, no-one's upset by anything that gets said. They're just utterly bored by certain people who go on and on, saying the same shit over and over again. I can't really fathom how you don't get that it's about that, except out of self preservation's sake, seeing as you're one of the worst offenders for boring the fucking shit out of people.

[stubbo-admin]

Some poster on here are far too precious and up their own perfect-model-citizen arses to be posting on here.

They're words exchanged between posters who don't know each other. That is all.

How can someone possibly let that get to them unless they really believe others know who they really are in the real world.

It's just sticks & stones. Always was, always will be. Entirely your problem if you choose to let words hurt you.

Frankly it's nothing (from my perspective) to do with what is said....it's that it descends into that same back and forth on every thread, which detracts from those actually wanting to debate the topic the thread is about and for those trying to read the discussion. 

That's the issue. From my perspective, keep the topic contextual, so those who want to discuss can actually do sonwothout having to navigate what is frankly thread spam.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Some poster on here are far too precious and up their own perfect-model-citizen arses to be posting on here.

They're words exchanged between posters who don't know each other. That is all.

How can someone possibly let that get to them unless they really believe others know who they really are in the real world.

It's just sticks & stones. Always was, always will be. Entirely your problem if you choose to let words hurt you.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Stubbo, you're basically saying that the only solution is to ban them. As you say, there are about ten people who cause most of the issues. Just ban them then. I guarantee that the only people who won't be happy about it are the ones worried that they might be next.

[honky cat]

Should set up a vote for most annoying posters. Top 4 get banned.

[Eerie Decent]

I don't get involved in that for days on end, there was 1 post to that creepy old cսnt Oxsaw. That was it.

You overreacted, because the 'power' has gone to your head.

[stubbo-admin]

Yeah, there's no point locking threads. The boring, lonely cunts who are so desperate for human interaction that they need to have dreary rows about nothing all the time will just carry on doing it on a different thread.

Mods should have some balls and just ban 'em for life.

 

 

The problem is there are no 'mods'.

The dreary bores have outlasted them all, and they've all left. 

There's about 10 posters on this site (the effort to put a proper total on it is beyond me) who frankly would be better setting up their own private Whatsapp group so they can have their own, never-ending repeating argument, day in, day out. 

It's a discussion forum. Topics are created and get discussed. WHO lets the way those topics are discussed and explored go a bit more off piste than 99% of other mainstream forums. But the principle remains to keep it "on topic". 

So a topic about 'the site is desd' that ceases to discuss the site itself, and starts discussing the same old alleged proclivities of the some of its members, or the state of the UK political landscape has at that point run it's course.

Hence locked.

We have threads where we've setup a place to have those "discussions/debates".  But it's tedious to see them on EVERY thread...no matter the topic the thread starts with. 

But...this isn't your own private little fiefdom.

There's a desire to keep the site going....which means encouraging new members.

Which means having topics that when updated, are updated about the topic, not some pathetic little clique. It's difficult to attract new members...and even harder to get new members to join when a thread about a given topic ceases to be about that topic, and reverts to either being about Race within the UK, or allegations thrown about against forum members.

A small number of us have worked very very hard to get the viable from a technology perspective. None of us asked to be 'in charge'. Just members that didn't want the site to die. But everyone who used to be involved i t ehrbunning of this site is seemingly totally over trying to moderate the relentless monotony of the bickering and arguments.

It's not myself that will kill this site. Or those who try and moderate it in the absence of moderators. It's the same few posters who want to turn every single thread into the same old tired, repeating argument.

We get it. Some of you don't like each other
 Some of you are on opposite sides of the UK multicultural debate and feel very strongly about it.

Can we not use EVERY thread to emphasise those two things over and over?

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Them's fighting words, Dreerie son.

Let's have a long, boring row about it and pretend to ourselves that it's witty banter.

[Eerie Decent]

There's always KUMB, Goddard son. Right up your strasse.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

Yeah, there's no point locking threads. The boring, lonely cunts who are so desperate for human interaction that they need to have dreary rows about nothing all the time will just carry on doing it on a different thread.

Mods should have some balls and just ban 'em for life.