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Jab, Whoami mistook your reference to an "ACE forum" thread on h2g2 in post 835 for "aceforum" on Yahoo with his yikesing and subsequent comment in post 843. Interesting that such a mistake was possible isn't it.

If certain people here are planning to be stupid on a regular basis, then obviously all references should be made as vague as possible so that they betray by their selective yikesings more of the truth which they are normally trying to hide. I've already seen some other people betray their own guilt and ignorance on threads here by the things they choose to yikes (or falsely attack in posts) which were otherwise entirely innocent except in the mind of the yikeser/accuser.

You'll spot that my personal stupidity did not prevent the correct result from prevailing - post restored, if my email inbox doesn't lie the same way I do...

I felt it right to come forward and explain why I'd done what I'd done, considering that the post had been referred and was temporarily hidden. I didn't want to fuel the concerns over the alleged anonymous removal of one side of the argument, so it seemed sensible to say why I had yikesed the post, not in an accusatory manner, but rather to explain why it had gone into temporary hiding. Sorry to Jab for any inconvenience caused.

Oh, and, for the first sentence there, SEF, it almost looked like your views had mellowed somewhat over the weekend...

Whoami?

It is the staff who can prevent the correct result and truth from prevailing. They don't have to do so in every case. With regard to my views, as usual you misread the posts and the situation.

1 question when someones post gets hidden who decides to remove it? is there more that 1 person who decides?

Normally, it is a single Moderator - not an Italic, an outside employee. In the event of a dispute or an uncertaintly, the final decision rests with an Italic. At the moment there are three of them.

SEF, spot the smileys...

Whoami?

need one of the small car smileys to go with the clown

Something in your eye?

intern you have made me confused witch isnt hard to do what you mean small car smileys?

a small car smiley 10 of them get out of a minnie

still dont know

it dont matter mate trust me

its forgotten already so you had any leave anything nasty on your page lately?

no nothing i can see as yet

there is a wasp in my room fasonated with my light keeps burning its self going to put my lamp on

switch the stove on if you have a gas cooker likes getting warm it will do

i think its asleep on my light fitting aaahh bless

::bookmark::

hi people im back at last! had problems with telewest, go on feel free to give them a big round of for keeping me busy for the last couple of weeks i dont mind lol now back to this, do me a favour eh at least give me a chance to catch up and reply to whats here before coming back with 1 of the following....
either a big cut and paste going on FOREVER!!!! (no offence Loup im not specifically pointing the finger at you but hey if it needs saying) lol or a dumb 'hug'/'cuddle'/'tickle'/etc smiley that just spams the thread and is of no relevance whatsoever!
ok 1st things 1st.....

Re: post 395

"the staff are either biased by who is complaining or about whom the complaint is made or (the most generous possible explanation) are easily manipulated into error by the wording used on the complaint whilst ignoring those complaints who are less good with words".

"as i have yikesed some of If Insomniac Vampires posts myself, i can confirm that this doesnt apply to her case...at least 2 of them were not seen as moddable by the mods, though i always make a point to explain in details why a post i yikes breaks the house rules.....

.....so as i complained about/yikesed Insomniac Vampires posts quite a few times (with mixed results), i can fairly say that who was the yikeser and who was the yikesed didnt affect the mods decision in this case....

....but the wording of a complaint is definately important (though no always enough in some cases)"


surely the fact that SEF is not alone in her opinion with regard to the people yikesing these posts and the way in which they are doing it tells you that this is a problem? you cannot say "i can fairly say", Loup you always respond to posts in this thread by quoting the rules or saying how you have behaved but im not talking about how 1 ace behaves or the rules such as they are, which your all quite happy to quote every 5 minutes in here, the issue here is not how you in a specific case has behaved or about the rules, its about some people being a bit 'trigger happy' (whether its on behalf of themselves or pals/fellow aces not having access to a pc) and not following the rules but getting a bit carried away with their title!

you got at least 2 of my posts returned back on their page did you? as much as that? lol you wanna see some of the spam email ive recieved from this site completely messing up my email (such as it is, i prefer to call it a joke, my email i mean), i have recieved as many as 30emails in 1 sitting some days with well i have to be honest i couldnt see anything offensive with a lot of them, i honestly believe someone was being petty some days, infact i even asked an aces opinion and asked if they thought there was anything wrong with particular posts and they were as surprised as i was

"now if we go back to what Insomniac Vampire said earlier, she kind of assumed that some people could get away with posting what they wanted as long as theyre pals with some aces....again this does not really apply in this case as, for example, in 1 thread she mentioned earlier aswell (the tea shoppes 1) both sides seem to have had some posts modded"...

yeah lets go back to that, i kind of assumed did i? you wanna bet? lol i never assumed i read with interest and amazement! i saw some people from that thread (regulars) threaten both online and off 2 researchers because they had a link in their tag, the people in the tea shoppe did not want them advertising another 'business' in their shop!!!! i could not believe some of what i read, them same persons went and complained to aces, (i read this too as someone directed me to it), on different threads about thesthese 2 researchers and yes your quite right posts from all involved did eventually get modded - emphasis here on the word eventually cos when it actually happened only the 2 researchers got some of their posts modded at that time, i noted later after this thread had been pointed out that some of the other posts were modded, funny that dont you think? i also read a post in that thread from an ace who though he has been in this thread he hasnt really contributed anything that ive seen worth responding to yet, (unless we're including smileys as worthwhile comments now? oh no we are constantly reminded here h2g2 is not a chatroom so i guess i can ignore them yeah)?,
the post i read off that ace in the tea shoppe thread clearly said to 1 of them 2 researchers i mentioned above that he could and would remove the researcher off this site if he continued to keep the tag in his name..no doubt someone can clarify if i havent got that word for word but the threat was there..basically you upset my pals and your out of here! hmmm i wonder if that post is still there? would be interesting to spend hours upon hours just to see for curiousities sake, i dont know about you personally ive not seen you around all that much in my threads but you seem to think all of the aces on this site along with the italics do this wonderful job unquestionably, and they are all a great asset to the site..well im not denying many of them are but not all of them not by a long shot..and if i hear that phrase again...'us aces are human we all make mistakes from time to time' think im gonna scream! yeah we all make mistakes but so long as your sat on that fence dont tell me without question they are all fantastic cos you sound even less convincing than the italics im afraid!

oh and speaking of the italics dont spose they have gotten round to looking at my emails from what? 5 or 6 or perhaps even 7 weeks ago now? remember i was asked to post to them? i guess they are very very busy

aces forum/grey area? hmmm some contributions in this thread have said its ok to discuss what goes on in there, some have said not....seems to me like no matter what i put in this thread the rules are a bit of a grey area too

the no-names advice....
well all ive read in this thread is people wanting me to name names or be quiet, thanks for your helpful advice then, bit of a no win situation in that respect though isnt it cos its leaving some aces unhappy whilst they wait for names, yet all i can say to everyone is the italics got names, but are they going to acknowledge my mails any time soon?

the unsubscribing business....
lol do you see the good in everyone? the timing was certainly wrong? what a joke! the ace in question and the researcher too both in this thread now, they could discuss it at anytime since it was brought up, the ace certainly acknowledged it previously yet when i mentioned the researchers conversations vanishing he remained silent..(though to be fair 2 weeks later since ive been about someone might of owned up, though i dont know why people dont just go back into this threthread to see who im referring too) timing was perfect lets face it!

and as for offline communications, yes the person who dialed my number is indeed no longer an ace but as he is her husband and she contributed to that conversation, (the 1 she has initially claimed no knowledge of yet she was sat beside him having a pop), her behaviour was out of order, you can defend it all you like but anyone reading this can plainly see it was wrong and an error in judgement!

right its half 3, im gonna pray to God this posts then im outta here before i stop making sence



people please bear in mind what ive asked and give us a chance to catch up before you start replying

BN.