BLC

Folks we need to take a good long hard look at ourselves and the behaviours over the last few weeks, we have lost and are losing so many posters it is not funny.

The level of aggression to each other is astounding to say the least, are we human beings?

I have to say the heart and soul has just gone from this place by bullying tactics and lack of respect.

It's just gone too far in my eyes, to the Forum's loss and to those on their life journey who need support and guidance.

A sad day

Rogue Trader

Spoken from the heart... well said BLC...
I've not seen so many scrappy little fights since leaving primary school... it's pathetic.

Good on ya... here's hoping you get plenty of support.

RT.

The Crow

Completely agree! I've been reading this Forum since April and so many threads take me back to the school playground. The art of reasonable debate seems to be dwindling And I've also been put off responding sometimes.

gobbyjock

Totally agree with you, sometimes you really have to bite your tongue and not rise to the bait of others. That is not always easy though especially if you`ve had a rough day or are feeling fragile.Some seem to enjoy livening things up by verbally mugging others.
However, I do love the fact that you can come on this site and have a moan about your crappy day and people will come back with messages of support (makes me feel all pink and fluffy inside). There are still a lot of nice peopel out there honest!!

BLC

I have said this in another post, many of us actually communicate more via PM's/Karma/E-mails at the fear of being bullied, berated or just treat like complete idiots. Not on in my book

Anne4Terry

I have only been on this forum since May and have only recently noticed bickering, but is that because it has only just started or is it because it has got worse. When you talk about people being not being as nice as they used to be, how far back are you going?
I know when I first came on here, I was terrified of posting in case someone was mean to me and when they were for the first time, I myself very nearly turned tail and ran

BLC

As many an old poster has said, we do go in cycles with this but I used to really enjoy coming on here, it was so helpful to me in my previous posting life then something has just changed.

You see a debate, it gets closed then re-opened in a new thread, the cycle goes on

We should be able to talk about good and bad, we should be able to challange someone cause we ain't all the oracle of knowledge but it doesn't happen.

Centurion

I have wondered over the last few weeks if some people realise that they are dealing with real human beings at the other end of a computer. Each one of us has dreams, hopes, desires and fears. It takes something special to post those feelings onto a forum, to bear your albeit nameless soul to the internet.

Everyone is different and with different opinions and thats what makes this life so great. There's no arguments to be won here, just a collection of opinions, each one completely right as long as that person really believes it so.

Each one of us makes a forum what it is. To have the same opinions would be dull and boring, but to treat each other with respect and civility shouldnt be that hard. Some individuals should be ashamed of the behaviour recently and thank goodness they are able to hide behind computer screens. To everybody else - thank you for making this forum what it is and for keeping my hopes alive during the most stressful of times over the last couple of years.

Professional Princess

BLC, I say we should name and shame the bullies.

(Princess grabs bag of popcorn and hands some to Barry, who stuffs his face with it)

Although, I know wombat is naughty, well wombat is just wombat.

Name and shame the bullies.

BLC

Haha, maybe that will just pander to their egos

Even the likes of our mate Wombat, at times he drives me mad at other times he makes me howl with laughter, but he is consistant and I would go as far as saying he tries not to be personal or too hurtful.

Professional Princess

I love the wombat.

I reckon when someone abuses a nice poster, we should all gather round and shout 'burn him, gouge his eyes' in an Irish voice as it will be more effective. I saw it in a film once.

Then we chain them up, march them through BE headquarters and let Paul deal with them as he is in charge of discipline.

Then they should be slapped with a dirty pair of knickers and have 'twat' written on their backs.

After that, if they havent changed their ways and said sorry, we can hold them down and shave off their eyebrows and burn their skills assessment and use their passports for cat litter.

Nothing horrible mind.

BLC

Crazy chickie

Rogue Trader

I second that..!!
When you read a post by Wombat, you know how to take it... you can sense the genuine nature of it... and whether you agree or not (and I often do )he is, as you say, consistent.
Others, however, are aggressive for the sadistic sake of it.

RT.

wombat42

If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. A nasty forum is much better then a boring forum. Do you want to end up like the Canadian forum where the most exciting topic of conversation at the moment is the difference between Canadian and British semi-skim milk?

BLC

Hey listen we have been backing you The fine line between having a good old slanging match then turning into personal gets over stepped too many times.