Ārseholes

[AndyRM]

I have, a couple of times over the years. Didn't receive a response.

 

[Stevo 666]

The main rule is don’t be a dick about things.

And therein lies the problem for Brian...

 

[AuroraSaab]

I have, a couple of times over the years. Didn't receive a response.

You'd be an ok moderator, I reckon. Shame they didn't take you up on it or put you on the waiting list or something.

 

[AndyRM]

You'd be an ok moderator, I reckon. Shame they didn't take you up on it or put you on the waiting list or something.

Thank you, I appreciate that. I moderate a football forum and have a fair bit of experience of doing it for other forums (my personal favourite being the now defunct Alan Robson's Night Owls, which was all kinds of wonderfully weird) and social media accounts.

It's all good at the end of the day, it's Sean's ship.

 

[Pinno718]

I do not see any problem with using French words in a benign context.
Makes no senses (virtue signalling aside).

 

[briantrumpet]

A bit amused about the spat yesterday about the sungod daily threads and the CC regulars wondering what the furriners are up to. Two locked threads.

 

[orraloon]

Perhaps one shouldn't mention longer term residents whingeing about immigrunts...

 

[Ian H]

Perhaps one shouldn't mention longer term residents whingeing about immigrunts...

Do you mean the ones from Bike Radar?

 

[secretsqirrel]

This place needs a Bottom Bracket section. On BR it acted like a little enclosure where all the smokers go.

 

[briantrumpet]

This place needs a Bottom Bracket section. On BR it acted like a little enclosure where all the smokers go.

NCAP is kinda it, but maybe this unmoderated bit needs a non-news silo for general daily banter, where politics and being serious about anything is verboten. It's a bit hard to stick to dem rulz for Cakestoppers when even individual words are moderated. Old habits, old dogs, and all that.

 

[briantrumpet]

Maybe it's sungod's lack of capitalisation that tipped them over the edge.

 

[secretsqirrel]

NCAP is kinda it, but maybe this unmoderated bit needs a non-news silo for general daily banter, where politics and being serious about anything is verboten. It's a bit hard to stick to dem rulz for Cakestoppers when even individual words are moderated. Old habits, old dogs, and all that.

That’s it! An Ārseholes silo part of NCAP, where you can hang out with the gang and have silliness and in-jokes, without having to wade through the smoke if you just want to talk NCAP stuff.

Sound.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I do appreciate they are unpaid volunteers, but it's not just a game - for instance, I wanted to explain to someone about the D prefix for French roads, but in the end decided I might get another flagellation for writing that "the D means that the road is the responsibility of the département". So I didn't. I genuinely don't understand where the boundary is, as English is so full of French words anyway, and apparently I'm not even allowed to use ones already in the Oxford English Dictionary.

But ho hum, I'll do my best to stick to the rules.

Foreign words are allowed, per the site’s owner.

This is what the site’s owner says:

“Language – We are an English language community and require content to be posted in English so that it can be easily understood and moderated. Short, common use non-English phrases are allowed, as are requests to have text translated; and if you wish to post a quote in another language, please post the English translation alongside it so that the meaning is clear. Moderators will remove non-English text where there is no accompanying translation or any doubt as to its meaning. “​

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However, if you draw attention to this, as I did, you get a warning from a mod and locked out of the relevant thread.

You’ve now drawn a target on your own back, where everything you post will be scrutinised for the slightest hint of an infringement, real or imagined.

 

[orraloon]

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone

 

[briantrumpet]

Foreign words are allowed, per the site’s owner.

This is what the site’s owner says:

“Language – We are an English language community and require content to be posted in English so that it can be easily understood and moderated. Short, common use non-English phrases are allowed, as are requests to have text translated; and if you wish to post a quote in another language, please post the English translation alongside it so that the meaning is clear. Moderators will remove non-English text where there is no accompanying translation or any doubt as to its meaning. “​

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However, if you draw attention to this, as I did, you get a warning from a mod and locked out of the relevant thread.

You’ve now drawn a target on your own back, where everything you post will be scrutinised for the slightest hint of an infringement, real or imagined.

I suspect you might be right. And woe betide anyone who gently questions the strictness of interpretation (to be fair to me, I think my odd Frenchcisms fell well within that rule) or, even worse, gently mocks the interpretation by using French words and phrases actually in the Oxford English dictionary.

But life's too short, and if that's what they want to do, that's up to them. C'est la vie.