No David I don't have an agenda. I think most mods no longer have time to spend watching every thread and every debate. I have no real interest in the EDP threads and rarely visit. I don't want to get drawn into the internal fighting within the EDP; I have enough challenges dealing with the internal squabbles of UKIP. Yes I am in UKIP although I do wonder why. I am not trying to undermine the EDP; I think one or 2 'supporters' are doing that themselves. There are plenty of people on this forum who by their words and actions seem to be undermining UKIP. If we banned them all it would be a very 'thin' forum.
I respond to complaints that are framed in a way I can deal with them. There is a lot of 'he said, she said' debate that I don't like getting into. I have dealt with the thread against Danny in the same way I dealt with the thread against akria.
I also snip the odd inappropriate word if I come across it.
I know Frith is a woman, but it isn't always easy to work out who the women are as some post with male names. I'm surprised Alex ignored complaints if they were laid out in a way that is easy to follow up.
The correct way to complain is to highlight not only the post complained of, with time, date and thread, but also the words in the post that are clearly wrong. Some people have complained about people responding to them and disagreeing with their point of view; there is no way that we can moderate people's views just because someone else says they are wrong. Some people insult everyone else, but get upset when they themselves feel sleighted. We do try to be fair. I've been insulted by lots of people who don't like it when they get the same back, albeit couched more carefully. In fact being a moderator has meant that I have had to ignore insults such as 'traitor', 'enemy', 'Quisling', 'Illuminati', 'prat' (Burgess has a limited vocabulary) rather than leap in and abuse my position.
As a mod I can see the e-mails that people use to register and I can check people's IPs. This means that I have a reasonable idea of who is using more than one ID, who is sharing a computer and who the posters really are. I can see people joining and immediately ganging up on others and it doesn't impress me. I don't use the information to 'out' people although if people show their hand in other ways then I don't mind using their real names.
I think cassie is sailing close to the wind; the locked thread is a warning. If he uses offensive language against other posters, other than in direct response to the same, then I will commence the process of infractions leading to banning. I'm not going to trawl over 1000 posts looking for insults.
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