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    Please stop splitting threads...

    I contribute to a post, then I cannot find the replies, then it I find it is split and I am not e-mailed replies ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

    Please just stop. Don't split threads..... Off topic is fine.... (now where WAS my off topic post.. not sure anymore,,,, has it been split)

    Is the world going crazy???

    I am finding it difficult to keep up ....

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    I'm with you on this one Martin. The thread splitting is becoming really OTT. Also i'm having posts deleted for apparently being offensive!! The last one said 'Aw Bless' Does anyone else find that offensive?

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    Also i'm having posts deleted for apparently being offensive!! The last one said 'Aw Bless' Does anyone else find that offensive?
    Oooh. New topic. Time to split the thread?

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    I'm with you on this one Martin. The thread splitting is becoming really OTT. Also i'm having posts deleted for apparently being offensive!! The last one said 'Aw Bless' Does anyone else find that offensive?

    The world is going mad... btw I heard a joke the other day relating to your reference to PMS... "Why do they call it PMS, becuase mad cow was already taken...." are we off subject yet?

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by Martin View Post
    The world is going mad... btw I heard a joke the other day relating to your reference to PMS... "Why do they call it PMS, becuase mad cow was already taken...." are we off subject yet?
    I loved a humorous card from a few years back, with photograph of two cows, one with an alarming expression. The mild one says "Aren't you worried about Mad Cow disease?"

    And the other one says:

    "Why would I be? I'm a duck!"

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    Oooh. New topic. Time to split the thread?
    Could be, but can we be included in the new thread, wrt e-mail and does the new thread contain all the background to be able to comment in full knowledge of how the comment came about?

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    I'm with you on this one Martin. The thread splitting is becoming really OTT. Also i'm having posts deleted for apparently being offensive!! The last one said 'Aw Bless' Does anyone else find that offensive?
    Only 'you know who'. I would put the person's name but some folk would find that offensive......

    To be fair, I'm offended everytime I see the name too.

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by SilverFox View Post
    Only 'you know who'. I would put the person's name but some folk would find that offensive......

    To be fair, I'm offended everytime I see the name too.
    I think someone is jumping to conclusions!

    Cruella's "Aw bless" wasn't in itself offensive, but it was part of a series of posts which were potentially offensive, irrelevant to the discussion, and not contributing anything of any value.

    They were deleted to keep the thread tidy – the "owner" of which has subsequently complained about off-topic and irrelevant posts on his thread.
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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    They were deleted to keep the thread tidy – the "owner" of which has subsequently complained about off-topic and irrelevant posts on his thread.
    Oh, so it is an ownership thing now......... Can I, can I... start up a thread and then grumble about people who contribute??????????????????????

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I think someone is jumping to conclusions!

    Cruella's "Aw bless" wasn't in itself offensive, but it was part of a series of posts which were potentially offensive, irrelevant to the discussion, and not contributing anything of any value.

    They were deleted to keep the thread tidy – the "owner" of which has subsequently complained about off-topic and irrelevant posts on his thread.
    I understand that, so why was I sent a PM saying
    Hi Cruella,

    The post that you created in the following thread has been deleted

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    Post ID:
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DavidJames


    Aw ble...
    Thread: UTOPIA all nighter?
    Reason: off topic and offensive
    .

    I was offended that I was accused of being offensive!

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    I understand that, so why was I sent a PM saying ...

    I was offended that I was accused of being offensive!
    Because it was part of a number of posts that were all deleted at the same time that – as a whole – were off-topic and offensive.
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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    Because it was part of a number of posts that were all deleted at the same time that – as a whole – were off-topic and offensive.
    But thats unfair to say my post was offensive just because some of the others were. The PM should be worded accordingly for each person.

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by Cruella View Post
    But thats unfair to say my post was offensive just because some of the others were. The PM should be worded accordingly for each person.
    The PMs are sent automatically to all authors – we don't get the chance to send a different message for each post deleted without doing a lot more work.

    But thanks for the feedback – I, and hopefully other moderators, will try to make sure we're more careful in the wording of the message sent in the future.
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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    I think someone is jumping to conclusions!

    Cruella's "Aw bless" wasn't in itself offensive, but it was part of a series of posts which were potentially offensive, irrelevant to the discussion, and not contributing anything of any value.

    They were deleted to keep the thread tidy – the "owner" of which has subsequently complained about off-topic and irrelevant posts on his thread.
    So are you saying 'you know who' didn't complain about being offended?

    In which case why should 'you' deem it offensive?

    If someone posts something bad about me then it's surely up to me whether I'm offended. Not the moderators!

    Unless of course 'you know who' did complain, in which case I'm not jumping to conclusions.

    This whole thing is getting well out of hand due to one moderator bringing his personal life into his role of moderator.

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by SilverFox View Post
    So are you saying 'you know who' didn't complain about being offended?

    In which case why should 'you' deem it offensive?

    If someone posts something bad about me then it's surely up to me whether I'm offended. Not the moderators!

    Unless of course 'you know who' did complain, in which case I'm not jumping to conclusions.
    I can't remember if anyone complained or not, but I was about to delete the posts in question when I found someone else had deleted them before me.

    I would have deleted them simply as being off-topic nonsense – talking about the size of folks' "chipolatas" doesn't really having anything to do with a conceptual Utopia all-nighter, unless you think this will be the typical activity during the night?
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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by Silverfox
    Only 'you know who'. I would put the person's name but some folk would find that offensive......
    Quote Originally Posted by SilverFox View Post
    So are you saying 'you know who' didn't complain about being offended?
    Unless of course 'you know who' did complain, in which case I'm not jumping to conclusions.
    Is this 'you know who' the same as 'he who shall not be named'
    Is it Voldermort!!

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    – talking about the size of folks' "chipolatas" doesn't really having anything to do with a conceptual Utopia all-nighter, unless you think this will be the typical activity during the night?
    You obviously haven't attended a Utopia!!

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    Re: Please stop splitting threads...

    By the way, I'm tempted to split this thread as the discussion that Cruella has brought up is clearly not on-topic, but I am concerned about generating an irony overload!
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