Recent happenings on the site

[Ross]

Sorry for the delay in getting this out there, but with working 18 hour days and a 1 year old to contend with i just simply havent had the time to post anything.

Anywho, with out boring you with all of the details, we have parted company with 2 members, 1 through their own choice, the other banned due to their behaviour whilst posting on this site. Other than spammers, this is the first member to have been banned from here in the nearly 8 years we have been running

Just as a friendly reminder to you all, abuse to other members, either publically or via private message will not be tolerated! If you see/recieve anything that you feel is out of order, please report the post/message in question, this will then alert the staff to the problem, and we will do our best to deal with it.
Remember, we are not robots, we are volunteers, we do have lives away from the forum, so please be patient with us

Thanks for reading

 

[RefJef]

Ross,

Do not know what’s been happening, nor do I need to know, but many thanks to you and all the mods for their efforts in running this site.

I know that I am a better referee for its existence.

Thanks again

J

 

[Sheffields Finest]

Cheers Ross, we all appreciate the jobs Mods do, when it happened I was looking for the Mod alert button but obviously you all lead private lives and aren't on call 24/7...keep up the great work, and have a great weekend..... Happy 30th to @Tealeaf too, cough!!

 

[JamesL]

Obviously something happened that I missed!! How I dont know given I must be near the top of the logged in time leaderboard.

However, place seems to be back to a happy forum again.

Thanks to all the staff members for the hard work they put in to keeping the site a constructive area for referees to learn and share experiences.

 

[Ref Axel]

Sucks to hear that even referees can act like children. I must say that I do appreciate all the help you're offering Ross.

Keep up the good work.

 

[JoeMaloney5]

Ross,

Do not know what’s been happening, nor do I need to know, but many thanks to you and all the mods for their efforts in running this site.

I know that I am a better referee for its existence.

Thanks again

J

I second that

 

[Big Cat]

I'd say it's very easy to misunderstand or be misunderstood by posting on a forum. RefChat is fairly tame thanks to the volunteers who police it

 

[Padfoot]

Can’t believe I missed some scandal........

 

[one]

Just letting you all know I am still here. I wasn't banned or left by choice

 

[Sheffields Finest]

 

[BCMilan]

I second that

I'll third that !

 

[Brian Hamilton]

Missed the fun.

 

[cwyeary]

Test.

I suppose if I made it through the World Cup I shouldn't need to worry...

 

[Russell Jones]

Glad to have escaped the night of the long knives! Thanks also from me, this site has been a godsend as I've progressed my refereeing career ....

 

[santa sangria]

Glad to have escaped the night of the long knives! Thanks also from me, this site has been a godsend as I've progressed my refereeing career ....

What he said (apart from the escaping, I’d have liked to have seen the drama!)

 

[Ciley Myrus]

I have had to send a pvt message to a member as he has totally misunderstood a post of mine on a topic am blocked from replying to because I was naive enough to rise to the bait of another member. The post in question makes my point in the thread read as ridiculous.

I would be fustrated to leave the site as there is always something to learn from others experiences and from my side, its exact as a member posted above, its easy to have a forum post misunderstood. We cant all express it in perfect terms first time of asking!

 

[Sheffields Finest]

Chin up Kylie!

 

[Big Cat]

I have had to send a pvt message to a member as he has totally misunderstood a post of mine on a topic am blocked from replying to because I was naive enough to rise to the bait of another member. The post in question makes my point in the thread read as ridiculous.

I would be fustrated to leave the site as there is always something to learn from others experiences and from my side, its exact as a member posted above, its easy to have a forum post misunderstood. We cant all express it in perfect terms first time of asking!

I wouldn't worry about it. If you submit thousands of posts, the odd one might not go down too well

 

[RobOda]

Always be nice to each other!

I saw the forum fall out from the two members who are no longer with us. Didn't make sense to me and I don't really want to know what that was all about.

I like the forum, it's a good place for discussion and is accessible for me compared to typical resources, so please keep up the discussions.

 

[Tino Best]

Sometimes when we write something it seems reasonable in our heads but comes across as different when read. There is no excuse for abuse between us but if every one remembers if we were having a face to face conversation these misunderstandings probably wouldn't happen. Electronic communication can't contain the naunces and tone of a proper conversation.