So what?
We're not talking about one poster objecting to what you're doing; we're talking about page after page of them. You're still ignoring that point.
We're not talking about a few puns, we're talking about page after page of them
So what?
We're not talking about one poster objecting to what you're doing; we're talking about page after page of them. You're still ignoring that point.
It's nice to see a busy thread on foot.ie again
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
I did a bit of digging into the Sammon forum to see how bad the pun problem is.
The thread started on 13 November 2010, and the first 22 pages (440 posts) took it to 23 September 2014, a three year, 10 month period which roughly coincided with his peak/Ireland years. In five years, four months since then, there are 71 posts on four pages:
- There are six puns on page 23 (23 September 2014 - 26 July 2015), the first of which acknowledges an Irish Indo headline that contained a Sammon pun.
- There are 10 on page 24 (26 July 2015 - 23 January 2018).
- There are four on page 25, (14 January 2018 - 10 July 2019), if ‘I never expected him to sink so low’ is a pun - while it references his name it could be taken as a face-value comment.
- There are five in 11 posts on page 26 (10 July 2019 onwards).
That's 25 puns in 71 posts in a little over five years. I don’t think that's excessive, though I don’t overlook the possibility that some puns may have been deleted, and that could skew the figures.
We need a solution, not finger-pointing: Tets doesn’t need to apologise or rationalise his dislike of puns. In every other thread he’s a good, even-handed moderator and I think we all respect him for that.
As I see it, the options are:
- The thread can be moved – RAM suggested to his LoI threads;
- Another moderator can take over just this thread;
- The thread carries on as most posters want it, with puns allowed. We’re looking at a player at the end of his career: the last five years show how little activity there’s been, and how little there’s likely to be. Meanwhile we try to avoid obvious puns that have been done to death. Up the game, lads – nets, scales, streams and the like are the low hanging fruit of punning. (Maybe they come in punnets…?)
Are there any other suggestions? Should it be put to a vote? Or can we reach an agreement?
Last edited by Eminence Grise; 01/02/2020 at 12:38 PM.
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Or, to follow the rule that was established the last time this happened.
Puns allowed for a day, and if that's ignored they all get deleted.
Literally the point of this thread is that that was your rule, and nobody wants it.
Why won't you accept this?
No, there’s no justification or support for it. Only one person has a problem with the puns.
Sssh. I figured as much, but you're weakening the argument!
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Users: Mods are allowed to set local rules, to the forum or even the thread. If it's stated as a rule for that forum, or thread, it's a rule. If it's a silly rule, it can be appealed, but not in the way this thread started. So let's continue focusing on appealing the rule please, and not attacking the mod.
Tets: While I agree with you that silly threads can be annoying and/or disruptive when they drag on, it's clear users want more leeway here. Do you have a suggestion for a way in which that can be accommodated? We've had free-for-all threads on Foot.ie before, including ones that called me every name under the sun.
(I'm not saying player threads should be free-for-alls BTW, they shouldn't. Just that there must be a way to accommodate people in some way.)
So what exactly was wrong with my opening post?
Like this post?
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
I think given tets is posting elsewhere, he's now ignoring this thread and the various - quite reasonable - requests to change the current rule (although I don't really like to legitimise it like that).
I think that's very bad form.
FWIW there are times when I enjoy a load of puns in a thread and other times when they are annoying and you just want to read actual posts about the subject. Can see both sides of this TBH.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
Just scroll past the stuff you don't want to read like the rest of us do.
These puns only pop up once in a blue moon anyway. It's not like they are disrupting an otherwise active and healthy thread and getting in the way of loads of other posts. There hadn't been a post on the Sammon thread in what, 5 months, and at Sammon's goal-scoring rate, there probably won't be another for quite a while either. The Towell thread hasn't had a single post since 9th of June 2019.
Is it really that much of a deal to just let it slide?
Does it give you any pause for thought that you seem to be the only one that is so bothered by it?
You haven't addressed the overwhelming disagreement of the posters with you on this - could we even find one person agreeing with you if we trawled through the whole thread?
I would also argue you did not communicate effectively in the Sammon thread. "One day" was the entirety of your post, and it might as well have been whale song - I certainly had no idea that this was a mod warning and seem not to have been alone in that.
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