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"Bit difficult to ban someone. Avant did what he felt was right at the time."
Thank you Trilogy. It's important to avoid knee-jerk reactions, and 'banning' someone is actually ineffective, as they can simply come back using another Email address. We don't have the facility to knock out IP addresses.
I did in fact disable that particular idiot's account after his outburst: he came back with a new address and apologised, so I gave him one more chance. Thereafter his language was less objectionable than Thunderbird's, but he seems to have gone away for the time being. I will keep a watch out for him.
I will Email ORB and wish him well.
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I share with sending my good wishes
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Is my memory failing me but I thought ORB spat out his dummy and gave Avant a ultimatum?
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Instead of arguing with or allowing yourself to be annoyed by a forum troll it's usually best to ignore them, sadly this forum doesn't have the option to 'ignore' individual posters, which usually means their offerings don't display on your ownbrowser, a useful tool in forums which have that facility.
I see another one is now active, hopefully if it gets no responses it will clear off when school resumes.
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Is my memory failing me but I thought ORB spat out his dummy and gave Avant a ultimatum?
That choice of words is perhaps a little unfair and seems to be making light of what the forum member actually said, which was highly offensive. ORB's reactions may have been a little OTT, but as far as i recall, he had actually had the virus (don't remember if it was officially confirmed as covid19) and got through it with the help of the NHS. So it was undoubtably (and understandably) a very raw nerve (especially if his wife is a nurse).
Instead of arguing with or allowing yourself to be annoyed by a forum troll it's usually best to ignore them
Certainly the correct course of action GB, but when comments are as offensive as that, it is very difficult to behave in a calm and considered manner. I only became aware of the comments when i was stopped for my lunch and looking at my phone. Because my phone is quite small, i tend not to get involved in conversations on it, (unless a very short and simple response). But i was so annoyed when i read the comments in question i was literally jumping up and down!.
But hopefully we will hear from ORB again. Reading his regular reports on whatever car he had was kind of therapeutic, a bit like listening to the shipping forecast!.
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Thereafter his language was less objectionable than Thunderbird's,
Thanks for that, don't like to come second.
But seriously Avant, the poster's comments were so objectionable you should have done far more than you did.
What happens if he returns again when you consider he has so far made 2 visits with his disgusting ramblings. Will you make a more serious attempt to block him next time or simply allow him to upset other long term members.
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The problem with blocking these fools is the same as replying to the rubbish they post, you've given them attention lacking in their real lives, thankfully if male the chances of them procreating are slim at best, every cloud and all that :-)
Arguably by treating them as even slightly important, banning publicly a good example, is that they'll just keep signing in under temporary email addresses repeatedly once they've got some response.
It would be wonderful if Avant had a secrect virtual rocket launcher which could send a signal down the line which destroyed their device beyond salvage, sadly all he really has is the typical mod's delete buttons, we can do help more by not responding to people who in more enlightened times would have been put somewhere safe, by responding we encourage the twerp.
Edited by gordonbennet on 24/05/2020 at 12:26
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Regardless of all that was said ( I thankfully missed it), I just hope ORB is getting better. It sounded bad when I last saw one of his posts.
Life's too short to stew about trivialities.
Now, where is SLO76 with his autotrader specials? ;-)
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Regardless of all that was said ( I thankfully missed it), I just hope ORB is getting better. It sounded bad when I last saw one of his posts.
Life's too short to stew about trivialities.
Now, where is SLO76 with his autotrader specials? ;-)
He's still around, but seemingly avoids the overtly political threads.
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And is very wise to do so! Many thanks GB and Groaver. I've Emailed ORB wishing him well from all of us and saying he's more than welcome to join us again.
I marked 'Sam' as a spammer after his last whinge: I'll watch carefully for him coming back with a new address, but he hasn't so far. Those marked as spammers can see their own posts, as can I, but nobody else can, so if they had brains they would notice that no-one replies to them.
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And is very wise to do so! Many thanks GB and Groaver. I've Emailed ORB wishing him well from all of us and saying he's more than welcome to join us again.
Thanks Avant. Hopefully he'll come back to tell us how he is doing.
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Is my memory failing me but I thought ORB spat out his dummy and gave Avant a ultimatum?
We all have a choice, If we can't stand it at work, if we can leave, we leave. If there are people we dislike, some of us try to avoid them. If we can't stand something, some of us do something about it.
If I "spat out my dummy" as you put it, it was because I was really very angry, and as said in another reply, I posted as Avant had kindly emailed me and I was touched enoigh by those words and others on here that I posted something of a minor update to say, yes, I survived..
I may or may not post again, who knows...
Life after that point is different, for me at least.
Au Revoir...
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It's important to avoid knee-jerk reactions, and 'banning' someone is actually ineffective, as they can simply come back using another Email address.
I seem to get banned quite a lot, but I've always resisted doing that.
One has one's pride.
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Not by us, Ed, I'm glad to say, and I'm sure you won't be!
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Not by us, Ed, I'm glad to say, and I'm sure you won't be!
I'm afraid with...er...Americans it seems to be quite often a reading comprehension issue.
Since they don't understand, they assume it must be rude or Commie Propaganda.
Of course, sometimes its both.
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I can confirm he's fine. He did have it but has recovered. Young Rover Girl being a Doctor apparently has been helpful. ORB is the same nice bloke we all appreciate. I hope he isn't embarrassed by that but he's one of the community on here that make it the place we all know and love.
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I can confirm he's fine. He did have it but has recovered. Young Rover Girl being a Doctor apparently has been helpful. ORB is the same nice bloke we all appreciate. I hope he isn't embarrassed by that but he's one of the community on here that make it the place we all know and love.
Cheers Ethan.
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I can confirm he's fine. He did have it but has recovered. Young Rover Girl being a Doctor apparently has been helpful. ORB is the same nice bloke we all appreciate. I hope he isn't embarrassed by that but he's one of the community on here that make it the place we all know and love.
Good to hear he's on the mend. I'll be glad when all this is over and we can get back to some kind of normality, so-to-speak. Many of us being stuck at home with nowt else to do has made us (me included) sometimes more irritable, especially as there's little to talk about other than the beer bug and (oh joy) politics.
Perhaps, once the lockdown is wound back enough for pubs to re-open groups of us in the same area can perhaps meet up and shoot the breeze rather than arrows at eachother online. If ORB is up to it, I'd consider taking a trip down the A14 to say hello, which would also do my car some good.
Rather depressing at the moment - we need something to look forward to.
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ORB...
Came to this tread late.
Glad to hear that ORB is on the mend and look forward to his tales of woe (sorry the MGs gone), tales of joy re his new Kia.
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Good to hear that he is OK. His comments were always sensible and constructive. One of the good guys.
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Glad to hear he’s well. I’ve always enjoyed his contributions here and wish he’d return.
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