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I dont profess to have that knowledge nor have the ability to do so.

What I do have, is the common decency not to discuss my PRIVATE messages on an open forum.

OK folks as the MODERATOR Jimbo contacted I can tell you until he contacts TOMBSTONE DIRECTLY HIS ACCOUNT IS STILL OPEN. Prior to deleting any account it has to be discussed with the member.

So stop the pity party and move on please.

Themis;1146117 wrote: I'm making a serious point.. it's not "crapstirring" at all just because you don't like it?



this is not an argument this is my true feelings regarding the fact that FG is too moderated....
If you have a problem with the moderation issues on FG then I suggest you take it up with the owner.

What I dont understand is, how did moderation have anything to do with Jim wanting to leave?

And why did you bring it up?

:yh_rotfl

abbey;1146118 wrote: I dont profess to have that knowledge nor have the ability to do so.

What I do have, is the common decency not to discuss my PRIVATE messages on an open forum. NO-BODY has discussed private messages here. el guapo started the thread that some-one had upset Jimbo and was asking who it was. I posted that i'd had a pm from him and i knew who it was. Immediately after that, guapo and i exchanged further private messages and he had been told the same by Jimbo as i had. We did merely said we had pm's...... we did not discuss what was in them. If you refer back to my reply to Gill, I did actually say that i thought it would cause a problem to repeat what Jimbo had said to me in his pm's.

I don't know why your getting so nasty with everyone.

I'm not getting nasty, just so bloody fed up with the crap being thrown, everybody else can have their opinion, I gave mine.

Themis;1146125 wrote: You jump in here telling me to grow up.. how dare you?

I'm a 40 year old man with his own business.. I don't need to grow up or receive your silly childish remarks.. why don't you grow up eh You know you have my respect Ian. :-6

el guapo;1146032 wrote: but who was it and was it fair


Themis;1146068 wrote: Too many infractors who don't even post on this forum hardly, they come out of the blue defending their friends.. I've tried to debate this but my posts have been deleted, I've sent messages to the FG staff but I get the the feeling that they don't care or my messages don't get to anyone other than a Mod.. I don't mind some form of Moderation but not just everyone or anyone.. let me stress that I see only 1 or 2 who should be anywhere near being a moderator...

The fallout of Jimbo's departure is that ignorance remains.

Another Man down but not forgotten..


"Mods", glamorous word for crap cleaners. We clean up the forum of spam, bad language, obscene posts, pictures. Now and again we have to deal with reported posts and sometimes due to those reported posts we have to either warn or infract the member/members. The reported posts are by the members themselves, if you didn't report them we wouldn't be acting on them.

Remember this the next time you may receive an infraction. That another member or members reported your post as it offended them, not because a mod decided it was your turn.

Tombstone owns this forum, he asks us to help him keep it tidy, were all happy to do so. If you dont like it, go elsewhere as we are not.

Themis;1146136 wrote: Jimbo got infracted and it pissed him off okay?

so I mentioned we have too many Mods, then you jump in like super girl telling me to grow up and creating a song and dance about it...

nobody mentioned names, it's just a discussion.
I'm a mod, you insulted me for christsake!

Cup of tea any-one?

oscar;1146142 wrote: Cup of tea any-one?


Are you serving scones & jam too?

qsducks;1146146 wrote: Are you serving scones & jam too? And Duckie with one fell swoop turns another thread into the subject of food :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl No scones today Duckie..... we're having supper. Mr O is frying up some sliced potaoe with ham and garlic topped with two fried eggs and fish fingers :yh_rotfl

Themis;1146143 wrote: I have done so.. still waiting...


No you haven't. We don't have receipt of any reported posts by yourself in the mod forum. If you have sent a complaint via the contact us button, that has nothing to do with the mods, it goes straight to Tombstone. If he responds to it, it will be via email to your own personal email address you signed up to FG with. Be warned, Tombstone is a very busy man and leaves the day to day running of the forum to us mods, that's why their is so many, different time zones and not all mods are active at one time.

Themis;1146149 wrote: How the Hell did I insult you???

too many Mods.... nobody knows whose a mod or not..


You were well informed when you created your 21 angles of Tombstone:rolleyes:

oscar;1146151 wrote: And Duckie with one fell swoop turns another thread into the subject of food :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl No scones today Duckie..... we're having supper. Mr O is frying up some sliced potaoe with ham and garlic topped with two fried eggs and fish fingers :yh_rotfl


My brain just saw fried eggs and for some reason frish fingers:wah:

qsducks;1146160 wrote: My brain just saw fried eggs and for some reason frish fingers:wah:
What are 'Frish' fingers? Are they similar to fish fingers? :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

oscar;1146163 wrote: What are 'Frish' fingers? Are they similar to fish fingers? :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl


Yeah:wah: I was reading your post and the brain just flew over fish and I read it as frish:wah: and no, I have not been drinking!:wah:

oscar;1146109 wrote: Sorry Abbey.... I had no idea that you had access to private messages between myself, Jimbo and guapo over the past few weeks. I didn't know moderators had that privalige as well. Could you take a look at the pm Nomad just sent me as well.




Funny this should come up about the pm's.

No mod can read any pm's other then their own.

I was talking about this last week & contacted TS & asked the same question about pm's.

So in short, no, mods cannot read pm's:-6

mrsK;1146189 wrote: Funny this should come up about the pm's.

No mod can read any pm's other then their own.

I was talking about this last week & contacted TS & asked the same question about pm's.

So in short, no, mods cannot read pm's:-6


What a relief. Now ould you like some tea & scones?

qsducks;1146196 wrote: What a relief. Now ould you like some tea & scones?


I just had breakfast.

Maybe after work.

Raisin toast & coffee,thanks anyway:-6

I believe that our mods are doing a fabulous job, and I appreciate all that they do for us.



They're here to help us not to hurt us, and that's what they're doing.:-6



I think that Chezzie explained it very well. This is a big forum, and it's nice to have mods here during different time zones.



A big thank you to all of our mods:-4

I agree with Kathy, The mods do a great job and dont get paid to do it. Well done Mods for the great work you are doing

Not having seen Jimbo post he got into trouble about I wont comment but I am sorry he has decided to leave

kayleneaussie;1146271 wrote: I agree with Kathy, The mods do a great job and dont get paid to do it. Well done Mods for the great work you are doing

Not having seen Jimbo post he got into trouble about I wont comment but I am sorry he has decided to leave


they were deleated

el guapo;1146275 wrote: they were deleated


Really? Where were they deleted?

kayleneaussie;1146271 wrote: I agree with Kathy, The mods do a great job and dont get paid to do it. Well done Mods for the great work you are doing

Not having seen Jimbo post he got into trouble about I wont comment but I am sorry he has decided to leave


and I agree with you and Kathy!

tis not easy keeping track of us all & every single post that passes by here everyday, this forum is always on the go, and I think they do a specular job keeping us in line!



sorry to see Jim go over one post.

el guapo;1146275 wrote: they were deleated Yes, they were

el guapo;1145330 wrote: who upset my jimbo

come on tell be a man or woman or girly boy whatever but who did it


:) First of all, he is "our" Jimbo. I believe he will return to us one day. We shall wait for him and leave a place at our table for him . And when he does return, there shall be much celebration and feasting.

Forum Garden..................you gotta love it. :wah:

along-for-the-ride;1146350 wrote: First of all, he is "our" Jimbo. I believe he will return to us one day. We shall wait for him and leave a place at our table for him . And when he does return, there shall be much celebration and feasting.

Forum Garden..................you gotta love it. :wah: If the British police lift the restraining order, I'm hoping to go to see him in Bracknell :wah:

along-for-the-ride;1146350 wrote: First of all, he is "our" Jimbo. I believe he will return to us one day. We shall wait for him and leave a place at our table for him . And when he does return, there shall be much celebration and feasting.

Forum Garden..................you gotta love it. :wah:


ive know him 36 years hes mine

el guapo;1146354 wrote: ive know him 36 years hes mine


That long, eh? :wah: Okay, I'll grant you that.............but you still gotta share him with us.

along-for-the-ride;1146370 wrote: That long, eh? :wah: Okay, I'll grant you that.............but you still gotta share him with us.


ok a bit

Jester I will answer your question some days and nights there may be only 2 MODS about. I have been here when it just me and so have others. We make decisions as they come to us. We do post it for all MODS to read but if it is something that need to be taken care we move forward and do what is needed. I have waited many times till more MODS are on the board before I act on any thing. With the exception of Spammers which we move on immediately or they can as you know make a game of it.

along-for-the-ride;1146350 wrote: First of all, he is "our" Jimbo. I believe he will return to us one day. We shall wait for him and leave a place at our table for him . And when he does return, there shall be much celebration and feasting.Good lord - The Church Of Elvis has competition at last.

Jester wrote: Over all I trust the mods here to make good decisions, to be perfectly honest there are times when I'd rather wait till I know certain mods are on before I report a post so my reports are considered by the ones who I think are fair to a fault.I'm sure if you include in your Reported Post text a comment to the effect that you'd like your report dealing with by X or Y or Z then all the moderators would automatically leave it to only X or Y or Z to handle. That can't be too hard to adopt.

Jester;1146440 wrote: *jester timidly raises his hand to ask a question*





Betty, I must ask then, how many mods do you have ot have to make it unanimous? Theres what? 18 or so mods? If you have to wait till all 18 weigh in and decide that just doesn't seem very practical, and when I have reported posts, I know every mod didn't possible have time to make a decision when I was brought back with an answer.



I would really like an explaination to this, and I'm not meaning to make trouble, but I think it sure is important to Themis' comments.
I'm assuming you just want an answer. If it was BB specifically you wanted to hear from, I apologize.



We don't seek a unanimous decision to NOT take an action.:wah:



We don't seek a unanimous decision to weed out porn or spam..after all, if it's quacking like a duck, some pervert is diddling it most likely..:rolleyes:



There are times of day when it seems no one is around. I don't mind waiting. There are definitely different points of view to be had. And when the folks that have shown up during the discussion have hashed it out, we act or not, as a united front.



There are understanding and gentle mods. There are funny and fluffy mods. There are logical and reasoning mods...

And then there is me. Surprisingly enough, finese is not my middle name...:p



But I enjoy watching us work as a team, all these differing personalities... it's definitely an interesting crew..:-4

Jester;1146484 wrote: As usual I cant tell if your serious or not.


As usual that's entirely a problem of your own making.

Jester;1146490 wrote: When I reported posts in the past and was dealt with, for all I knew at the time, it could have been only one mod making the decision. There is too much human bias on this board to alllow a unilateral deciciosn to infract, and still have the membership feel condifdent they will be treated fairly if reported.How do you think a moderator out of step with all the other moderators would survive and not end up losing their confidence and being obliged to withdraw? That in its own right would surely tend either to produce decisions which the others can all live with or to self-correct by a change of team composition.

Jester;1146498 wrote: Ya know you stepped down on yer own not admiting any fault whatsoever- dont cry about it to me.


It's blatantly obvious I wasn't discussing myself. Or anyone else, come to that. I deliberately expressed matters in non-personal terms without indicating whether it had ever happened on FG in practice.

Jester;1146501 wrote: We should just end this now and go our seperate ways- I dont care to get into yet another go no where post to post tit for tat with you, ok thats best for both of us I think, and probably for the whole board-


As usual that's entirely a problem of your own making.