What is happening here?!

[Royal Flush]

(handshake)

Type it into skype chat and it comes up with a little handshake smiley, we do it as a rub when someone busts deep in a tournament, so obv here i am giving the oracle the rub for being barred.

[Royal Flush]

Iron if you would like the opinion of the largest shareholder i suggest you PM him, as it is i try to leave you mods and tikay to deal with the forum.

[Sighmuns]

As most of the posters on this thread are more invested friendship-wise than I am one way or the other, I thought i'd throw in my hopefully neutral opinion.

Some of the people mentioned that have been banned are interesting posters and generally liked in the community if i'm not mistaken. They are big parts of the community, and thus represent the community to an extent.

There's nothing funny at all about posting porn on Blonde, no matter how drunk you are as far as I'm concerned. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, if these were not regular posters on blonde, a ban would be a non-question.

Obviously there's controversy over who made the posts, but debate on that point can surely only go so far. That's for the moderators/banned members to sort out.

It seems to me that the angry posters near the front were caught on the term "Life Ban", a term which suggests blanket-damning of those concerned with no debate, something that would indeed seem unfair considering that those accused deny the 'charges'.  The angry early-posters have been part of this forum far longer than I have, and I've already heard of 'Life Bans' being overturned, of course they'll be dialogue over it.

How the mods could have acted very differently I find it hard to see. This is the first forum i've really followed, but these people seem to put up with a lot considering they're not paid.

[Dubai]

Surely u just use an ip changer or dongle and open new account and no-one ever knows if are u banned for life?

I mean its hardly a big thing gettign banned from a poker forum!!!!!!!! Not exactly a life changing moment

[thediceman]

Surely u just use an ip changer or dongle and open new account and no-one ever knows if are u banned for life?

I mean its hardly a big thing gettign banned from a poker forum!!!!!!!! Not exactly a life changing moment

For some it appears it is. 

[Dubai]

Sorry to derail- finally got around to buying the book in ur name? Any good if u read it?

[thediceman]

Sorry to derail- finally got around to buying the book in ur name? Any good if u read it?

The first 100 or so pages are a tad slow and it can be difficult to get you head round why he decides on using the concept of "dicelife" especially the way it is introduced. Luke Rhinehart's next book "the search for the diceman" was a better read.

[ACE2M]

Sorry to derail- finally got around to buying the book in ur name? Any good if u read it?

The first 100 or so pages are a tad slow and it can be difficult to get you head round why he decides on using the concept of "dicelife" especially the way it is introduced. Luke Rhinehart's next book "the search for the diceman" was a better read.

the concept was a bit better than the result. still an interesting read though.

[Dubai]

Cheers will give it a go anyway

[gatso]

the concept was a bit better than the result

yeah, to some extent I wished I hadn't read it as the concept was def better than the delivery

[thediceman]

I first heard of "difelife" from a documentary presented by Luke Rhinehart. The documentary >>>>> than the book.

[thediceman]

As most of the posters on this thread are more invested friendship-wise than I am one way or the other, I thought i'd throw in my hopefully neutral opinion.

Some of the people mentioned that have been banned are interesting posters and generally liked in the community if i'm not mistaken. They are big parts of the community, and thus represent the community to an extent.

There's nothing funny at all about posting porn on Blonde, no matter how drunk you are as far as I'm concerned. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, if these were not regular posters on blonde, a ban would be a non-question.

Obviously there's controversy over who made the posts, but debate on that point can surely only go so far. That's for the moderators/banned members to sort out.

It seems to me that the angry posters near the front were caught on the term "Life Ban", a term which suggests blanket-damning of those concerned with no debate, something that would indeed seem unfair considering that those accused deny the 'charges'.  The angry early-posters have been part of this forum far longer than I have, and I've already heard of 'Life Bans' being overturned, of course they'll be dialogue over it.

How the mods could have acted very differently I find it hard to see. This is the first forum i've really followed, but these people seem to put up with a lot considering they're not paid.

To get the thread back on subject 

However recent developments have added a whole new dimension to this and hope blonde can recover. Personally a few more life bans need to be given out or blonde may be creating an unhealthy precendent.

[Longy]

This is all probably a bit too late as the horse has already bolted. Over the last year or so, there has been an ever increasing us and them situation on here. I think part of the problem is the mods don't properly represent the full scope of regular members on here anymore. A lot of the regular posters on here are 20-something male internet poker players, certainly a bigger proportion than in the past. Yet the youngest member of the mod team is well into their thirties if not older (correct me if I am wrong), there is very little representation for a significant % of the posters. I think this is a particular problem as the younger members certainly have a different way of looking at the boundaries of what of good taste/ a joke is and what isn't.

The mods have particularly thankless job imo especially as blonde have quite an open policy compared to just about every other forums I have been part of. Tikay always wanted to be quite open about certain stuff on forum in the early days, this has led to a situation where a lot of decisions are questioned and debated on forum. When maybe in some cases attempting to have an open discussion but then saying it is the mods decision is just counter productive.

[nirvana]

They are big prats of the community, and thus represent the community to an extent.

Thought this was a bit harsh Greg since you don't know them too well and also tarring us all with the same brush (to some extent) tsk tsk !

[thediceman]

They are big prats of the community, and thus represent the community to an extent.

Thought this was a bit harsh Greg since you don't know them too well and also tarring us all with the same brush (to some extent) tsk tsk !

I think he is being VERY generous considering recent developments.