I couldn't of said it any better. Take from the famous thread, post by someone with a neutral view(I think)-notice it was edited for some unknown reason, probably because of some revealing fact that the mod had to hide. ---- Now to Mr. Ultras Napoli: I suggest you to cease your tiring and pressing (for everyone, yourself included) request for objectivity and fair treatment from posters and mods on this board. You'll never get it. You shouldn't care about getting it. You see, this is an anglophone site, whose bulk audience and administrative unit comes within the anglosaxon culture, and the vast majority of them don't have neither the cultural diversity nor the intelligence to overcome their cultural bias. See Andy Bennet and the moderator on this thread as legit examples; if they're at a fault, life will eventually teach them right...but you stand no chance. I guess having the atomic bomb on their arsenal, or affording 2 cars instead of one, or having the rest of the world speak their native language makes them believe their opinions/culture bias are more justified. And of course, they feel at home on this site. My opinion is that the idealistic idea of sport in general and football in particular went down the tube with the flush the moment the "professional" suited up the first time, and that was long time ago, and certainly didn't happen in Italy. I suppose England or USA... Since then, any invocation to the purity of the game or fair play has had a taint of hypocrisy on it, but the Anglo-saxons like to resort to it in dire times, i.e. when they lose, pointing out some facets of the degeneration of the sport that they (mostly wrongly) believe can not be associated with their party. So please, save your energy for higher goals than serie A (or professional sport in general), which is hardly worth defending. Finally to the mods: I see Ultras Napoli has gotten a caution...if it's because of the content of his posts on this thread, I think it's unjustified. There is certainly enough evidence on Andy Bennet's post to legit a doubt of bias, and the expression of such opinion has no right to be obliterated (other that the "I'm the owner if the site and you aren't" right...); and although Ultras has been a bit rude on you mods, I think cautioning him for that is a result of your deficiencies as human beings rather than your virtues as Moderatos bye __________________ God bless Materazzi Last edited by Prawn Sandwich : Yesterday at 07:50 AM. ---- Notice there's no reason for the edit...? I'm obviously not the only one aware of the problems that exist in that forum.
Not me, the post is true. No effect on NT and League whatsoever. Anti-English rhetoric? More like anti-Italian rhetoric if you read on. That thread was actually going fine until the usuals decided to sabotage it with the same old story like a broken record. It's a pattern, the same old story, I disagree, I get an infraction, and the cycle continues. lol
LOL White Riot never fails to come through with his "hysterical" jokes! Too bad it's not the 50's anymore. https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=531307&page=10 You were saying something about anti-something rhetoric, what was that again? lol
Yeah, but that is funny, especially the bit where they all ran home to their Mums, made me laugh anyway. Why do you care so much that we don't care about Italian football? So much so that you went into almost complete denial in that thread, typical Italian I suppose, bury your head in the sand and pretend there isn't a problem.
Yea, you know a joke is funny when you're the only one laughing. Complete denial of what? Tell me what I denied again? It's not that I care, it's that I'm curious as to why you and some of the English posters care. They care enough to come onto the Italian forums and play the same broken record I hear in the UEFA forum. The best example is Andy's thread, which was created BEFORE my thread questioning the desire to see Italian football penalized even more... And you only strengthen my point about stereotyping with every post you make. Anti-what rhetoric again? It must be nice being able to hide behind you buddies, huh?
nicephoras makes a valid point, this is getting boring and you're just trying to provoke someone into a reaction. You ain't gonna get it here, mate. Now, why exactly was it that you started a thread asking what the procedure was to become a moderator, and with the thread title "How to apply to become a moderator?" when you don't want to be a moderator?
This, boys and girls, is what is known as a straw man argument. I never mention jri. Allegedly, he's been succeeded by golazo, who is on my ignore list, so I can't really comment much on what he writes, I only see what other people quote from him. But keep on fightin' the power, nice!
No, the majority of your posts that I have had to take action with have involved me editing out the trolling and personal attacks. Which is exactly what I did here. So yes, you were treated in the same way. I gave two warnings - one was specific to you and the other a general warning to all the participants on that thread. You then ignored my request to speak to me via PM about the off-topic language issue and posted three further comments. You then proceeded to call me corrupt and part of an english conspiracy. Funnily enough, I'd had enough by then You mean the way in which I politely requested the poster to make further comments in English so that the vast majority of the BS community could understand? (a request that an Italian poster commented privately to me was "fair and balanced moderation") Yeah, that was real vicious It was edited to remove the accusations of bigotry and nothing more - feel free to check with the guy who posted it as I'm sure you wont believe me. You might take the time to notice that I left untouched the various derogatory comments about "the mods" in that forum (ie me) - that I was unfair, un-objective, a hypocrite, biased and generally deficient as a human being. I suggest you take a time out from this thread - you are not doing yourself any favours right now... (although from a purely personal standpoint do carry on as you're doing a wonderful job of demonstrating the reasons you have earnt that yellow card)
No dave, its called the lack of cognitive capacity on your part. The jri comment was a throwaway joke. (You're the one that's "fightin' the power", whoever they are, incidentally.) If you feel the proliferation of English mods is a problem (which is odd, as only one supermod is English) then you need to grow up. No English mods moderate US forums. If you have a problem with too many English mods moderating English fora, I can only presume you're employing some form of double secret probationary self referential mocking humor on a frequency that only dogs can hear. Keep raging against the machine, dude!
Ah yes, the wonderfully moderated Italian forums where when I posted after the Roma v Man Utd game I had my sexuality "questioned" merely because I lived in San Francisco... now personally I couldn't care less about that kind of childishness, but the fact that you are complaining about the moderating in the European forum whilst holding up Italian moderators as an example of good moderation, well, please...
You see, there's another example of bias. With so many Italian equipment makers, that should definitely have an Italian speaking moderator.
Right, but there's only one Italian poster there, and he is a moderator of another forum anyway, and has no interest in moderating our forum. I don't see how that's biased! The people who are best for the modding jobs get the modding jobs, I don't see why that is bias, unless it's bias against the people who know most about the forum... And besides, if there's nobody who speaks Italian on the forum, why do we need an Italian speaking moderator?
Well as the main Conservative amoungst the English posters one has to take the lead you know................