my old man!!

[Nobby Snide]

*light blue touch paper..and retire to a safe distance*..ppffissssss

 

[duncan bulgaria]

Can maybe see why a 50 year old using his son to pass messages will gripe on some people , its the same gripe that i have with married middle aged folk flirting with each other on a football sit and also middle aged folk getting so hung up about an internet poster that they get together to make his life hell and act like children .

Got no idea why GB got banned but i could name 5 other posters i'd rather not see on thi site , but you won't find me PM'ing the mods to grass them !!

I wonder whats gonna happen at the SZ awards bash as i reckon GB is defo in the running for poster of the year that if awarded fairly will ruff up some feathers on here .

FREE the Grays 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[steveo]

Well thought out and constructed answer.

To be fair GB wasn’t really offensive to people, he just seemed to pick slightly contentious issues to talk about. I hope you let him back as I am keen to see if African driving habits have improved much in the Grays area whilst he has been gone.

 

[duncan bulgaria]

Well thought out and constructed answer.

To be fair GB wasn’t really offensive to people, he just seemed to pick slightly contentious issues to talk about. I hope you let him back as I am keen to see if African driving habits have improved much in the Grays area whilst he has been gone.

Today hoooooks !!!!!

 

[loz]

Well thought out and constructed answer.

To be fair GB wasn’t really offensive to people, he just seemed to pick slightly contentious issues to talk about.

and consistently quote 'facts' without anything to back them up. not that that deserves a ban, mind.

i find it quite amusing that the RW group have picked GB as their cause celebre (especially Rusty's 'I'm the acceptable face of unacceptability, me' post a few pages back, tres bonne..), but good luck to you. What might be fun though could be a lifetime ban for anyone who 'leaves' in a strop :D

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

If GB agrees to the conditions we apply for his return, then it will be important for other posters to play their part in bringing about the good-intentioned, inclusive, friendly and welcoming board we're trying to create. To that end, we will be speaking to GB but also asking the rest of the board for their support in what we're trying to achieve.

Very well said. We are all Southend United supporters, and that is the most important thing - that is why we are here. The Pub section of the board is enlivened by debate and disagreement - but it's also a place where I find myself laughing at the posts of fellow Moderates like carl, Godless Stalinists like Lord Football, and sexual sadists like Tarquin. It's the one place where diversity seems to work.

:thump:

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

especially Rusty's 'I'm the acceptable face of unacceptability, me' post

I object to this strongly. It makes me sound like a northerner.

 

[steveo]

and consistently quote 'facts' without anything to back them up. not that that deserves a ban, mind.

Fraid you are wrong there Loz, I distinctly remember a lot of his facts were things he had heard from his mates.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

On behalf of the Board's owners.

Although there is no onus on us to comment on individual bans, we have decided to in this instance as a mistake was made some time ago and this has led to some confusion.

To clarify the position here, GB's ban was imposed after he stormed off the board with an "I shall never return" strop after a period of time when the actions of the owners were becoming more and more about managing antagonism caused by, surrounding or otherwise just involving GraysBlue than about just running (and enjoying!) the SZ website. It was a situation that could not continue for much longer.

In the context of so many of the threads/posts made by the poster in question descending into grief which we had to spend time dealing with and his ignoring of a very specific public warning which led to a month's ban (reduced to and served as one week), we gladly accepted GB's subsequent decision to leave on his own accord and we terminated his account. The mistake was made at the time of closing down the account when it was closed only for a month when, given GB's stated intention and in context of the way the Pub section was heading, the intention was to close the account permanently. This is something we rectified lately when we realised we hadn't done this. Given GB's publicly stated intention to leave the board, the recent correction did not appear to us to be an issue.

For the record, very few people actually get banned on here and banning anyone from the Zone is always a last resort, however even while it is rare to ban someone from the site, it remains our prerogative. Our goal is to retain SZ's position as the leading independent Southend United website/forum where people can discuss issues in an atmosphere which is good-intentioned, inclusive, friendly and welcoming. Where, in the collective opinion of the site's owners, any one Zoner threatens to derail that, we retain the right to deny the Zoner access to the site.

If, as it now seems, GraysBlue wants to come back to the Zone, we will consider re-admitting him although, in our opinion, the Zone has been less fractious without him here. As suggested by Rusty Shackleford above however, if he is re-admitted, there will be conditions attached to his behaviour which will see him leave the board for good if he chooses not to abide by them.

A point well made by Rusty Shackleford is that so much also depends on the behaviour of ALL posters. If GB agrees to the conditions we apply for his return, then it will be important for other posters to play their part in bringing about the good-intentioned, inclusive, friendly and welcoming board we're trying to create. To that end, we will be speaking to GB but also asking the rest of the board for their support in what we're trying to achieve.

A very good point. There are a few on here who goaded GB at every occasion, and a man as passionate as GB will obviously bite back. These goaders seem to get away with time after time, yet it was GB that felt the full force of the Mods. Yes it is up to us all to abide by the rules, not just one man!

 

[loz]

Fraid you are wrong there Loz, I distinctly remember a lot of his facts were things he had heard from his mates.

i stand cheerfully corrected. one day things we've heard from our mates (and the results of phone-in polls in the daily express) will be legally binding forms of evidence, and we'll all get a lot more done.

 

[steveo]

No. There is a politics section you'd probably enjoy.....

I am not touting for business, (coz I don't need to) but you'd be welcome.

Looks like a good site LF. The only thing that concerns me is how much time you might spend administrating it during working hours, as you are supposed to be collecting peoples tax or whatever you do, and as such being paid by us, the poor tax payer.

 

[EastStandBlue]

my old man!!

Is a dustman?

 

[Nobby Snide]

A very good point. There are a few on here who goaded GB at every occasion, and a man as passionate as GB will obviously bite back. These goaders seem to get away with time after time, yet it was GB that felt the full force of the Mods. Yes it is up to us all to abide by the rules, not just one man!

Call me GOADER...NOBBY GOADER

Shaun Goader, even?

 

[South Bank Hank]

Call me GOADER...NOBBY GOADER

Shaun Goader, even?

Done!.......

 

[Cricko]

The Owners statement is made, so I think we are done here now Chaps.