Madness.

Not the rubbish band: just madness.

Ath Madness would be if were were to leave stuff up.... it would be much worse...

An email a couple of days ago:

"I've reported this libel to ? FC and I will to the police too. Just so you know who it was. "

Admin1

Not a go at you or your colleauge, far from it: just the way things are now, which is quite sad.

Ath, no worries, I didn't think it was. We don't really know how the old 606 would have moderated these days in terms of similar content, but suspect it would be equally as draconian?

I guess without the moderation that I doubt our Celtic and Rangers boards wouldn't function as well as they do.

Admin1

Don't envy you, bud, with all these new laws coming out here. Is it the same in the other countries in the UK?

Not really Ath.... We have guys that use the site from all over the world and some of the English translations of words that are non-offensive in certain countries and languages can cause us problems when comments are made on a site which has a primarily UK based audience. Accusations and denials of racism.

We often get threats of people suing us over stuff posted on the forum or that minors may be reading. We generally ban those members that make those type of complaints and block the ip_address to protect them from viewing or using our site.

JA606 is a bit like an iceberg.

This article is a good example of the reality of the government's intent on removing provocative speech. Personally speaking I would be in favour of colluding with the foe malign in order to create new offensive terms that would see the 'overseers' struggle to keep up with fresh insults. By your grace Admin 1.

Quite right in banning them. Difficult enough as it is, you can do without that nonsense from professional complainers.

The iceberg comparison is very apt.

Ath, we have had over 8,000 complaints that either Admin2 or I have had to deal with and the site is less than a year old. Some days it is bad.

"foe malign", HMP?

Did I say that out loud atheist?

No, you typed it.

Bah, rumbled.

Nae kiddin, Sherlock?

HMP for a cross team forum that we hope guys enjoy... new offensive terms would probably not be good for harmony and discussions on the site.

We read the bill from the early draft stage, it is better than it was, but ambiguous enough to ensure they weren't listing specific terms. Any new term would be illegal as soon as it was used in the context of the old term, if that makes sense.

"Personally speaking I would be in favour of colluding with the foe malign in order to create new offensive terms that would see the 'overseers' struggle to keep up with fresh insults."

Seriously, HMP, what do you mean by that?

Struck dumb, Polis?

I can imagine what you are up against. Doesn't appear to be too much malice about and there are the boundary pushers to contend with, most guys can take a bit of stick and it's funny getting it back.

I think that comment went over my head?

Is that the type of stuff that you would want banned,atheist? Enemy with evil intent or foe malign,Jeezo.

HMP, while I agree, to a certain extent, about giving and taking a bit of stick, the Scottish government don't, so we have to converse within these Draconian laws, sad to say.

No, HMP, I don't want ANYTHING banned.

Apologies for the caps but it gets on my moobs, this PC stuff!

A1- I was talking about the ambiguity of it all.

I am sure grown men know how to converse, not really in favour of hiding behind politician's rhetoric. If I couldn't say it to your face then i'll probably not mention it.