Banning smilies from serous debates
 

They have no place in the serious debate and news section

The joker is well over used and to added to posts that mock another’s members opinion.

If you want to post a load smilies head to a chat and games thread.

Also the use of the words hate,hateful racists and racism should be defined, as in the media or the public.

It should not used on the forum implying members are being hateful or racist.

Also instant bans for taking a thread off topic.

These measures will get serious debates and news back to being a debate about the subject not the member.

Yes sick of seeing :wavey: in there

Oh disagree with some of your other stuff, people use veiled racism in SD quite often, they’re not being blatantly racist, but the undertones are there in the post

Then let’s use the report fuction instead of engaging and let mods and admin decide.

I do and usually the racist post doesn’t get deleted but the one calling it racist does :shrug:

Seems quite simple to me, if you don’t want to be called racist or hateful, don’t be racist or hateful

A wild concept

Follow your own advice.

The forum isn't designed to suit you.

Instant bans for taking threads off topic seems harsh and unenforceable. What is off topic anyway? If there is a thread in SD about a lion escaping from a zoo and murdering a couple of people, and I mention my cat, is that taking it off topic?

Also, some of the best threads in the history of tibb start off about one thing and end up about something completely different.

Not taking away TIBB's essence of taking the p!ss out of something serious though.

This should be listed as item number 1 in the forum rules tbh

Tibb would lose too many regular posters.

Replying with only gifs should be against the rules in SD&N to be fair.

Calling out what someone sees as bigotry should be fine, as long as it's not done in an attacking way.

Didn't take long to press racism button

I mean, really

It used to be

How about a maximum reports per week? That might encourage people to debate rather than troll/report?

It is.

Desperately needed, the report button is abused, it’s basically become a ‘help me, I’m losing’ button

Agreed, I think that certain posters only goal is to try and get the conversation to a point where they can hit the red/white triangle.

Maybe it wasnt as racist as you thought.:shrug:

Hands up if you hit the report button twice a week.

If it was twice a month, my hand would still stay down, and those that want to abuse it as a tactic rather than honestly, are hardly likely to admit is are they?

Or maybe whoever dealt with it didn’t understand the racist undertones in the post :shrug:

Guess we’ll never know :shrug:

People should be able to post what they like on a public forum like so many people often remind everyone else.
If members are racist or hateful then they should be called racist and hateful. If people don’t like it then they should stop being racist and hateful.
If you’re after instant bans then you wouldn’t last very long considering you enter a thread to criticise what other members are saying rather than contribute to the thread discussion.

No.