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NeverEnough

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And another. Read the whole thread this morning. DS has changed so much since 2004 when I joined.

I always thought of myself as a leftie, but DS members insist I'm not just right wing but far-right.
😁 I know that feeling. I have a range of views that run pretty much from centre left to centre right. However it would seem that the DS membership regard me as a dangerous Nazi.

And I only wanted to chat about football and sci-fi shows!

The last time I posted I committed the cardinal sin. I contradicted patdfb on a Trans thread. There lies nothing but pain.
 
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265

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It's a shithole, not much of a forum when most of the time the comments are one sided only in many cases. As I've mentioned before, so many subjects are banned. Yep, you have the grammar police who love to correct you on simple mistakes. My favourite hangout was Showbiz but now
it's more or less dead, hardly any new subjects and people have moved away to other sections of the forum.
 
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No Drama Llama

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Banglaroad is a another vindictive arsehole who dominates the radio section especially the LBC chit chat thread and if you don't listen to the right radio station/presenter he takes great delight in calling you a fascist nazi gammon I would love to see him get his comeuppance one day.
I find he usually accuses everyone of being a racist if you don't agree with him no matter what the topic of the thread is - Gammon is also one of his favourites. I thought he'd been quiet for a while but realised he spent most of his time on the LBC thread but seems to have drifted back towards the politics forum in the last few days.

Some of those twats need to look up the meaning of fascist and bigot and then take a long look in the mirror.
There's quite a few lacking in self-awareness.

I also post on the TalkRadio thread, some real odd people on there who have nothing positive to say about the station which makes me wonder why they bother commenting on it. Sorry to the poster who got a ban but possibly for the best.
It probably is for the best but it's so annoying that they keep dishing out warnings and bans for minor things while the chosen few blatantly break all the forum rules, bait and troll while collectively belittling other forum members who dare to have their own mind and yet nothing is ever done to them so it would be nice to see some of them taken down a peg or two. If I'd have known I was getting a permanent ban, I would like to have at least gone out in a blaze of glory and told some home truths.


There's something deeply "off" about DS Politics forum. The thoroughly nasty people on there get away with being abusive, sneery and really are people you wouldn't want to mix with in the real world. Their whole lives seem to be spent behind a keyboard trolling people. I'd like to say you're better off out of that nest of vipers but the forum is absolutely pointless if differing opinions are not allowed. It's just a fascist site with only one side allowed to speak their mind. The more despicable ones on that "forum" have got used to running the show and democracy is a word they like to use often but haven't got the nous to see that there's nothing remotely democratic about that forum.



I think annemarie1066 could be a contender for getting posters banned.
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Definitely

Going off topic so derailing the thread (please feel free to report) - everytime I try to quote something and respond to a post, if I then respond to someone else, my post merges into one rather than separate ones - is that normal or am I doing something wrong?
 
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NightCircus

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You'd think the owner/s of DS would actually read their own forum then they'd realise how bad it's become. I think all Support over there should have names like here so that the offending ones - erm, can be reported 😂😂
It's just so obvious Support have been infiltrated and turned upside down. Why Hearst don't seem to care I don't know but then again I see a lot of platforms going the way of DS in terms of being over policed by admin so I think this is just how things are going in public spaces in general, on and offline. :(
 
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Happy Lady

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They've threatened me so many times, then banned me earlier this year. But I've now been reinstated again. Each time has been so trivial because my opinion differed from the main. Hardly ever go on since finding Tattle.
 
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HockyRorror

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I don't know how DS keep getting away with it and why they would want to go to the trouble of banning long-standing members for some jumped up, made up offence while letting idiots rule the roost - are the mods scared of these morons or are these morons mods? You do have to wonder! Do the mods or even Heast not have anyone to answer to or can they really just do as they please?
The morons are the mods. Edit: To clarify, I mean some of the posters are mods themselves.

Out of interest, what time did you get your ban?
 
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Obviously I don't know whether she's a mod or not but there's certainly something going on there. I think she's just staying aways because of what happened on Sunday night.
The only way she can feasibly get away with her repeated awful comments has got to be linked to her being a mod or at least knowing one.

I’ve reported her once (should be more) after she made a series of dreadful comments about my late mum in a thread about grief. How she survived that I’ll never know...
 
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DigiDuino

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I lurked there for years but I’ve only ever posted a handful of times because of the amount of ridiculous arguments other people have on every thread.

A few regular users even ganged up on someone for posting a new thread about
something that happened in an episode.

Literally just a characters name in the title and I think they ended up being banned? Surely you should stay off a soap forum until you’ve caught up on the ones you care about😂
 
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Gym&Tonic

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I don’t know why I always assumed Veri was a he? He/she always seemed to have it on for other women and I just assumed it was yet another DS ‘nice guy’.
 
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plymouthbloke1974

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Here is a perfect example of the method of attack on the politics forum.... poor chap who even voted remain chucks in a tiny bit of criticism for the way remainers have behaved.... and watch them round on him like a pack of wolves. They even flagged him to the mods in the thread. Surprised the poor bloke hasn’t been banned yet.... 😲

What a vile horrible place that is.

 
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OtherMoon

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I don’t know if you managed to catch it because DS support said they were going to delete it (didn’t go back to check whether they did) but the POLITICS forum had a 2020 award ceremony thread 😂 James2001 got an award! I don’t think it was exactly “most knowledgable poster” but it was something equally as ridiculous that made me burst out laughing. Oleo Strut got one too can’t remember what for though. Support left a message saying it was going to be deleted because some of the later posts were “toxic” 😂😂



What is the reason for the apostrophe in DS? Do you have proof that DS has an apostrophe?



Confirm what you mean by suffocating. Do you have any proof of these so called cliques and bannings? A long time poster suggests you were there before the revamp but you have not provided sufficient evidence that you were at all.



You say you are sure but without proof this is just your interpretation. Do you have a timeline of when this supposed behaviour worsened and when you say progressively how progressive was it when you used that word?

^^THAT is how Veri used to typically respond to every single post that didn’t share the same viewpoint, drove me up the bloody wall!! Oh, and welcome, it’s much nicer here 😇😇
Oh my I almost broke out in a cold sweat it was just like the old days. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Blowers

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As a new member I thought I would post and say that I am another person who posted on DS for many years with little idea there was a reporting and warning system. Then they kept coming and I was banned.

As I mostly posted on the LBC thread let me list my supposed crimes.

1. I like the Nick Ferrari show
2. I am apparently a fan of Jon Gaunt in spite of the fact that when first accused I did not even know who he was!
3. From time to time I mention the problems and failures of James O'Brien.
4. Occasionally listening to James O'Brien which you are not supposed to do unless you like him. When I stopped listening to him several years ago this pivoted to you must be listening to him!
5. Mentioning anything positive about the UK.

The clique which run the thread exited decent poster after decent poster and must have sore fingers from all the pressing of the report button.
By contrast one poster trolled pretty much every post I made often in a nasty fashion but nothing was done.
Another kept inferring that Nick Ferrari hung around men's toilets but is still there.
Another seems unable to post without scatological and toilet references.
I see there have already been plenty of references to Banglaroad who seems to have nothing else to do.

The shame is that it was an active and mostly friendly forum whereas now it is a quiet echo chamber.
BanglaTurd, Venetian & Tony Mahoney got a lot of folk banned in that lbc radio thread.
Just click on their profile & note the amount of 'discussions' they have made, i.e. reporting/running to the mods to get folk binned, and actual 'threads' they've started & subtract the difference.
Tony hasn't been seen in about a year but the other 2 think that thread belongs to them now.
 
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Wolfshead

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I deliberately stayed out of the Tom Moore stuff over there. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep my big mouth shut.
 
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TARDIS Blue

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Hi all, I heard this place mentioned over on the dogs forum and thought I'd check it out. You might recognise my username from DS. Looking forward to joining in with the community.
 
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freda19

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Those were the good old days.
That thread was brilliant.:m It was my first port of call every morning and cheered me up no end. The late night posters were absolutely hilarious. She's an old slapper, always was, always will be but some men can't see past her plastic tits and they get mesmerised by them. Very creepy and pervey and much more disturbing than taking the piss out of the dirty lying tramp.
 
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Jellybb

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The hol
Oh god yes, she was absolutely crazy!

You could not disagree with her posts or you'd get rambling long essays about why you were wrong and why Shirley and Phil were meant to be forever and ever and ever and ever and ever!

The soaps forum used to be a laugh but it's ridiculously clique now. Your posts are ignored completely if you're not one of the 'known' posters and your face doesn't fit. If you do have a point - one of them will repost your post in their words after or in another thread and then all the little cling-ons will reply to it there.

The only decent thread now in there IMO is the Holby one!
The hollyoaks thread is a clique of guys lusting after 90% of the male cast... the Emmerdale one, they all seem to be bffs
 
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Did anyone else feel bad for "Enudzio"?
I feel like people used to bully him just for making threads asking questions. He was harmless

People used to moan that he didn't return to the thread after his OP, but but his threads always got loads of replies and started discussion among other users. So who cares if he didn't return?
 
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No Drama Llama

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I've thought right from her first post that she was a fat, middle-aged guy called Olaf, typing away in his parents' basement. If that's not the case then she is, to say the least, a fantasist and probably worse. I once had a post pulled from the "Trivial Annoyances" thread because I wrote "Narcissists" and this was assumed (wrongly) to be directed at Tanya1982. Does everyone else see the irony in that?

Mind you, that doesn't explain how she gets away with it.

Oh, I see that Tanya1982's post where she slags off the other members of the forum has been removed. I suppose that's some kind of progress. Sort of.
It is strange how so many of her posts are removed and yet there never seems to be any sort of comeback on her - just for the other poster.

There's also a few on the politics thread that seem to be able to say what they want without suffering any consequences - it seems a very strange way to run a public forum where only one opinion is accepted, sort of defeats the object of a discussion!
 
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265

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That makes a lot of sense. Some posters are beyond rude and can hound others relentlessly and get away with it. Others mind their own business, post an opinion and are banned with no explanation.
Tell me about it, had a couple of posters who constantly posted smartarse remarks on my posts, some of which were insulting, even reporting these posters had no effect, DS did fuck all. Glad I'm outta there, talk about double standards.
 
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