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Newbury Today Forum _ Random Rants _ Important! New rules and regulations

Posted by: admin Jun 15 2009, 04:05 PM


Welcome to Newburytoday.co.uk’s forum. After a month of operation, we have introduced some important changes to how the forum operates.

From today, anyone who has registered will be able to post their thoughts and views straight on to the new forum. Any content posted will still be moderated but this will take place after publication.
If any posted material does not conform to our new terms and conditions (new and existing members please see below), it will be removed.

We are hopeful that the standard of debate which has so far been excellent will continue as will the wide range of issues being aired and the cross-section of people taking part.

Any personal abuse of either forum members or of other members of the wider community will not be tolerated and will be removed and the author either warned or barred from using the forum.
We sincerely hope this will not be necessary and that existing and new forum members will continue to debate local and national issues rigorously and with good humour.


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Posted by: GMR Jun 16 2009, 11:46 AM

Glad to see members have immediate access to the forum; as opposed to the delay service you had before hand so that admin could check them out.

Posted by: Bill1 Jun 16 2009, 11:51 AM

Good news.


Well done admin.

Posted by: AmieB Jun 16 2009, 12:02 PM

So much better, im glad its been changed

Posted by: Gumbo Jun 16 2009, 12:07 PM

Took your time but you got there in the end. Listening to the people! if only those elected to serve would do the same tongue.gif

Posted by: Andy Jun 16 2009, 12:24 PM

Excellent!!! biggrin.gif

Posted by: Simon Jun 16 2009, 12:33 PM

Excellent news - Well done

Posted by: NORTHENDER May 27 2012, 07:24 PM

Post deleted as in wrong thread. rolleyes.gif

Posted by: James_Trinder Jun 13 2018, 12:13 PM

QUOTE (admin @ Jun 15 2009, 04:05 PM) *
Any personal abuse of either forum members or of other members of the wider community will not be tolerated and will be removed and the author either warned or barred from using the forum.


Well, this clearly isn't happening any more if it ever did in the first place.

Posted by: SirWilliam Jun 13 2018, 01:41 PM

QUOTE (James_Trinder @ Jun 13 2018, 01:13 PM) *
Well, this clearly isn't happening any more if it ever did in the first place.


Though I agree in essence, if we banned those who are pretty clueless in the art of debate there would be very few contributors. Now if we had evidence on the other hand that the petty name calling is preventing a more "adult" forum membership then I for one would welcome a robust approach.

Posted by: x2lls Jun 13 2018, 10:00 PM

QUOTE (SirWilliam @ Jun 13 2018, 02:41 PM) *
Though I agree in essence, if we banned those who are pretty clueless in the art of debate there would be very few contributors. Now if we had evidence on the other hand that the petty name calling is preventing a more "adult" forum membership then I for one would welcome a robust approach.



This forum is hanging on by a thread. (Ha, did you see what I did there?) Any of that censorship nonsense, bar threats etc, will be the death knell.

Posted by: Strafin Aug 14 2018, 05:08 PM

It's hanging on by a thread probably because of all the abuse and bullying. Why would anyone want to join in with a group of no more than a dozen middle aged men squabbling over the most trivial of issues, with no debating skills and f.uck all in the way of intelligent or evidenced debate? It's just a group of angry people who don't know why they are angry lashing out!

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