Right. As one of four people who volunteer a considerable amount of time and effort into running and moderating this site, not to mention financing it - I’ll say this:
UTS is meant to be a community, we are all Walsall supporters - this is a place to discuss Walsall Football Club. The back-and-forth bickering on the site in recent weeks is incredibly frustrating, as is having a thread dedicated to it. This has to end.
If we genuinely want these issues to stop, I’ll ask all users to adhere to and understand the following:
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Agree to disagree. We are all passionate about the club, but as in every walk of life, not everyone will share your view. When a discussion beings to go back and forth just move on - we don’t award points for having the last word.
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If you literally can’t leave it alone, take it to a personal message. If the user chooses not to respond, accept that and just let it go.
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When a moderator asks for a thread to get back on topic, do so. On a few occasions this week a mod has called for order and been flatly ignored by a number of users. We have guidelines, adhere to them.
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Respect the other users on the site and enjoy the fact that an archaic old platform like an internet messageboard is still as well used as this one. We’re all from the same neck of the woods and we all follow the same club, this is a place to embrace that.
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We don’t want to start muting users but from now on 24-hour bans will be implemented when bickering continues and moderators are ignored. You wouldn’t believe how pissed off I am that we have to do this.
Just be nice, supporting Walsall is a tough enough already…
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