Gunwalloe - Church Cove
View across Church Cove in Gunwalloe at the base of the Lizard Peninsula.
The church is St Winwalloe with it's distinctively seperate bell tower and surrounding Tamarisk hedge....
newlyn house
Wonderfully painted frontage....
rogers tower
A folly built 18th C, for Mr Rogers, a local landowner....
Lyskerrys is only a symptom.
I suspect there are many more 'visitors' to the site who are afraid to post, or who don't come back to the site because of the viciousness of 'the few'.
If it starts to become unpleasant to be here, many WILL just back off.
Whenever I've tried to take a more proactive role in moderating the forums there have always beens cries of bias or purile bickering about who started it.
With the current forum software there is a "notify moderator" button which you can use. I will look at all reports but will only deal with those that show obvious malice or abuse.
It is actually better if you PM me with details as it saves me having to wade back through posts and then get accused of not banning the right person.
I'm going to put a post up at some point explaining etiquette and also maybe take some comments about members behaviour. At the moment we don't have enough time to read through every thread so the board would ideally be self governing.
I don't know the history of Lyskerys' case but will be happy to look into the background of why a decent poster should feel this way.
Looking back at the way Stroppy was treated last year I think I should probably have done more. That behaviour was completely unacceptable - if you disagree with someone who raises points you don't like you do not hound them off a board.
Anyway, please PM me and we will look into making this board a little more civil. The link in the post above is worth having a look at for those of you who are still a little vague on what should be tolerated on discussion boards!
There is a difference between "raising points" and someone who was constantly posting anti-Cornish remarks on a Cornish board, i.e every post and trying to disrupt others comments. (not referring to Lyskerrys of course, who has made some good posts and considered contributions ).
The figures for unregistered users seem to be constantly between 70 - 150 users online at most times. (showing the number of unregistered users online might help with the advertising etc !)
Yes, agreed 1549.
One problem is if you moderate a board too much, it becomes seemingly unattractive and stifles any debate whatsoever. Nobody who has drawn flack on this board has been squeaky clean and has usually goaded or intentionally irritated somebody. There have been a few recent cases of such.
Respect is very much a two-way process and people should learn to recognise when they are getting up other people’s noses and stop, otherwise they should expect a pretty stiff reply. You couldn’t behave in the street like that, so there is no reason to behave like that on here.
Chris, thank you very much. That has made my morning down here and will please strop no end when he eventually surfaces from bed.
As for how people should debate, I have always ascribed to the position that you debate the content of the post and NOT the poster.
It would be wonderful to have all pathetic insults and abuses not appear on this Board. Though in some cases, that would mean some posters would be posting a lot less than they have previously.
I don't think people will forget how stroppygob's behaviour was also unacceptable. He presided over some of the most abusive behaviour I have seen on the internet. Even you commented on it Hen, about his being rude.
I was just making a comment to chris on his review of the past situation. If you remember, there was a sh!tload of personal information propagated all over this forum about him. None of it was removed. Because of links certain posters put up, I had to take down all my girl's photos from a site we shared with her Welsh Grandy. There were obscene pedeophillic comments added to her pictures. I was, and still am, disgusted at those comments.
I would certainly never say he was blameless. I would like just to be able to continue posting without people giving me grief for being married to him.
I take your point Hen and I can't comment on the former stuff except generally you should keep things a bit anonymous on the internet, in fact the BBC will not allow you to use your real name. I don't want to linger on the topic but things weren't all one way. Let's leave it at that.
I have always kept issues relating to me anonymous. I have always valued my privacy and do not want my 'real life' persona to interfere with my net hobbies.
Unfortunately, my husband used to like to be an open book, as he has nothing to hide.
When it got so foul towards my baby, I stepped in, made him clean up his act and remove anything that could connect him to our child.
It is sad that there are so many 'sick' individuals out there. My case should serve as a warning to all those who are wayward in their privacy.
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