Nick
Administrator
"Common sense" and "people talking shit" are a matter of opinion, not objective concepts. I'm disgusted at your decision to start censoring peoples opinions about the football club, it's utterly fascistic IMO. I'm a moderator on a forum and if a subject gets taken off-topic, then I might go as far as saying so, but not edit or remove content unless it is down right offensive or insulting. As far as the "topic" of this forum goes, well it's Coventry City Football Club, and as such any post related to Coventry City Football Club is on topic.
I think what this decision really comes down to is you finding peoples views unpalatable. It's "ruining" it for you because you don't want to hear it. A lot of people are very, very pissed off: they feel that their football club has been stolen from them. They post on here sometimes as a way of articulating their rage-it's healthier than bottling it up! Sure, by all means politely inform people for taking a matter totally off topic (not in the grumbly, biased sounding fashion that you moan about it), but if it's a match thread about a game in Northampton in front of a stunningly low crowd, that is going to be something that features in peoples thoughts. Absolutely anything that relates to how the club has been run by SISU-and most matters are linked in some way-is going to mean that comes up, isn't it? To try and censor people in the manner that you suggest is akin to trying to pretend that those matters are irrelevant when they are not.
As someone who attends games at Sixfields, you'll appreciate that you're seen as biased to one side in the boycott debate. A light touch rather than "borrowing Thor's hammer to crush a pistachio" would be more appropriate, otherwise you'll start to look like SISU.
BTW if it's a dick-waving contest, I've given SISU not a solitary penny this season, so you won't beat me on that score
I'm not censoring anything, people are entitled to their opinion and there is only so many times that you can give them a little nudge to say keep it on topic.
If I was only censoring something I didn't agree with then why was the last few things I personally moderated things they weren't really things I disagreed with. I wouldn't delete or edit anybody's posts I would just lock the thread, it's how it works on pretty much other forum.
The point I am making is that a few people on here may as well copy and paste their posts and set then to auto post in every thread on a match day when we don't win. Some are nowhere to be seen when we win or get a good result.
Sometimes matters are irrelevant, if a Thread is discussing something completely unrelated to SISU, let's say Jordan Clarke's cat has just had his boosters for example. Then somebody will ALWAYS try to find a way to bring it around to SISU, just like the nice thread where the fella found a plate in his kitchen. If it was a thread related to it then go for it.
I haven't given sisu a penny either so we are equal on the dick front
