• @jen_jen wrote:

    How ironic….on one thread there’s a call for 24/7 moderation, on another thread there’s the question of why all the guides! :lol:

    ……. which just goes to show that you can’t please all of the people all of the time.

  • Couldn’t agree more Batty.

    My least favourite scenario (but one that we come across all too often) is as follows:

    Male & female meet in chatroom – they engage in a PC which inevitably leads to some form of …er…. ‘closer relationship’ – they fall madly passionately & deeply in ‘lurve’- female gives male loads of personal information about…[Read more]

  • What, you mean he danced around like an idiot grabbing his crotch, and he’s dead?

  • So there you have it. Another one for the JC scrap book – a major league complaint made about the wrong person. Everybody jumping on the bandwaggon defending the indefensible. Ah the joys of being a ChatGuide eh?

    It’s a bloody miracle that any of them want to do it at all – much less 24/7.

  • Ah Bat – you’ve given me an idea. How about a “Moaners” room in one of the Forums?

    They could all go in there whenever the mood takes them (all the time) and moan at each other endlessly about how they were booted “for no reason”; or how they were “just defending themselves and their kids” when they got booted for typing in a tirade of…[Read more]

  • 48th ????? But I thought she was only 37 !!!

    If you got this wrong rob, she’ll be coming after you with a bloody great big cucumber !!!

  • @Yoda wrote:

    i wonder how long it will be before this thread gets locked :D

    All the while the ‘debate’ remains of interest and keeps within the bounds of reasonable comment it won’t be Yoda…… but thank you for wondering.

    BTW: ref the post above this one, interesting how there seems to be much more to this allegedly ‘unfair’ booting than at…[Read more]

  • yes …… Michael Jackson.

  • ForumHostPB replied to the topic Michael Jackson in the board Getting serious 16 years ago

    Applications are up to 1,700,000 now and I hear that ticket resales are going for around £2,500 each now.

    Still I guess that it will be his last ‘live’ performance.

  • ForumHostPB replied to the topic Swine flu in the board Getting serious 16 years ago

    Chances are that you’re in a “swine flu pocket” but no need to make a pig’s ear of it !!!

  • You say it occurs “Nightly” – maybe not so.

    I spent all yesterday evening from around 9.00pm to 1.00am in the chatrooms – particularly Forum 3 – and there was no trouble at all. A couple of very minor handbag swings (one in F1 and one in F3)but that was all. Neither warranted a booting.

    There were also two other Staff members around the site at…[Read more]

  • and there I agree with you bon bon … it is harder than it looks. I’ve been doing this stuff for not far off 10 years now and if I had £1 for every time somebody told me how to do it better ………….!!!

    I always find it saddens me when a normally reasonable chatter rises to the bait offered by some stupid little kiddie and mouths off with…[Read more]

  • You very accurately describe the difficulty that ChatGuides have when ‘banning’ a persistent scroller or abusive user bon bon. As you say, they simply keep on coming back over and over, sometimes for hours on end. Each time they are booted it confirms to them that they are being noticed etc etc and which simply reinforces their stupid & childish…[Read more]

  • ForumHostPB replied to the topic Beyond Belief in the board Getting serious 16 years ago

    This is yet another example of a bored Media with nothing better to do and a bored readership only too willing to throw its collective hands in the air in ersatz shock and outrage.

    In current his role as ambassador to the UN, Sir John Sawyers is well known to many thousands of people. as no doubt is his wife and daughter. (One only has to think…[Read more]

  • ForumHostPB replied to the topic Michael Jackson in the board Getting serious 16 years ago

    I hear that the tickets on sale for MJ’s funeral are limited to 175,000 …… and to date over 1,500,000 people have applied for one.

    If it is all a hoax to boost his earnings from record sales – and he comes back from the dead – do you suppose that they will get their money back???

    BTW: Remember – you read it here first folks !!!!!

  • Let me add to the comments made already.

    We don’t claim (and never have claimed) that the chatrooms are moderated permanently or 24/7. To do this we would need around 130 ChatGuides – assuming that each Guide did two shifts of two hours per week for 52 weeks of the year (remember we have three chat forums running).

    We currently provide around 85…[Read more]

  • ForumHostPB replied to the topic Fourth Of July in the board Off topic chat 16 years ago

    @NCb wrote:

    Ohhhhhhhhhhh FormHostPB, I’m beginning to believe you don’t like Americans! Hmmmmmmmm, should I take this personal?

    …..only if you were alive at the time !!!

  • ForumHostPB replied to the topic Fourth Of July in the board Off topic chat 16 years ago

    Y’know, if it wasn’t for the bloody French….. !!! At least we burnt the White House down.

  • ForumHostPB replied to the topic A FINAL OUTCOME in the board Getting serious 16 years ago

    OK who fancies a little wager???

    I’ll wager that he provides the Police with a ‘location’ for the body ….. a massive search ensues (with the Media in full attendance naturally) …. and surprise surprise, nothing is found yet again.

    Meanwhile Brady thoroughly enjoys himself in the knowledge that the family will go though extreme distress once…[Read more]

  • ForumHostPB replied to the topic Michael Jackson in the board Getting serious 16 years ago

    Karl Malden was a nice guy, both on and off stage and earned a lot of respect from his fellow professionals.

    It was said that both he and Jack Palance were the two ugliest guys in the film business.

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