Fascist Moderators hiding behind cute little names are no different than posters

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Fascist Moderators hiding behind cute little names are no different than posters

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Posted 2 years ago
Anonymous

I have had posts altered (user name changed) and removed entirely from this site.

No explaination has been given.

There was a request that I change my name on the site.

My name was canadianrugby.ca

If the moderators of this site were so obtuse that they neglected to either register that user name or similar names, or include reference in terms and conditions that such names would not be allowed - then who/ what gives them the right to block anyone from using such a name.

None of my posts have been negative / derogatory / slanderous as many other posts have been.

If the moderators can hide behind their names...

Ian Trevor - Winger 14
Gord McInnes - Culloden (now Toothless tiger)
and others...

Why complain about someone else doing the same?

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Posted 2 years ago
admin
Key Master

you were sent an email warning you that we do not want you to use the name canadianrugby.ca as a posting name and you were given time to correct your username. We did not hear back from you at all so we deleted your username. You were not banned at all from posting just told to change your username. Now we will delete this username as it is too long and going into the text box.

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Posted 2 years ago
Anonymous

NO LONG NAMES!!!

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Posted 2 years ago
Faust
Moderator

My 2 cents is that you would have been mixed up as being someone who is an owner or admin of this site. Your comments would have been confused as being an official comments of this site and could place the site in jeopardy for slander or objectionable comments. I think the same can be said if I change my name to Gareth Rees and started to say things that could reflect badly on him. He has the right to ask the admin to change the name in order to protect his reputation.

That is my opinion.

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Posted 8 months ago
Son of Heavy
Member

Fausty old boy, don't go banning me for re-visiting this thread where you dealt with this anonymous guy, but a lot of the stuff you've been spouting on this here forum is damn near incomprehensible, senseless and at times (worst of all!) banal. You've gone over the top a bit here and there (same with ol' winger14)in your posts but because you've (obviously) got quite a lot of time on your hands, and you read every post for libelous behaviour, you're given a pass as a moderator who lords over this here fiefdom like a golden god.

You and the other moderators (not to mention the six months the site was down for 'refurbishing' last year) have really sucked the life out of these forums. I am all for deleting a post that is slanderous, hurtful or rude, but I know in a past incarnation (see if you can guess who I was!!!) many of my posts were deleted for nothing more than taking the proverbial piss out of Harry Craig's large feedbag. Enough with the censorship. This site used to be read by hundreds if not thousands of people. Now it is read/posted on by maybe a handful of people because you've chased them all away with your unique brand of 'web justice'.

Hear me out, at least, without deleting the post because someone dares to criticize you or these forums... But it is really sad what has become of what was once the only place for semi-relevant (using the term loosely here) discourse on rugby in this country...

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Posted 8 months ago
Toothlesstiger
Moderator

The Administrators,Ladies & Gentlemen, I wish to let it be known that I wish my privileges as a moderator of this site be withdrawn immediately.

I have served a mere 17 years in the many fields of rugby football here in Canada and have now virtually totally withdrawn from the scene.

I reached this decision due to my personal feeling of accomplishment and my sense of a total lack of serious mindedness to change the way Canadian rugby, Rugby Canada and it's provincial members have chosen to stay with the status quo while the proverbial Rome is burning.

In 17 years hence I would take a bet that this site will be the airing closet for all the same issues with some different faces in the seats or behind their keyboards.

Good luck and thanks for the many exciting and truly happy memories over those years.

Gordon McInnes a/k as Culloden and as Toothlesstiger.

p.s. I have not censored anything on this site for more than the past 2- 3 years.

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Posted 8 months ago
Faust
Moderator

Gordon,
Tha mi duilich.
Mòran taing

Unfortuately I can understand your feelings on this subject.

Toothlesstiger said:
The Administrators,Ladies & Gentlemen, I wish to let it be known that I wish my privileges as a moderator of this site be withdrawn immediately.

I have served a mere 17 years in the many fields of rugby football here in Canada and have now virtually totally withdrawn from the scene.

I reached this decision due to my personal feeling of accomplishment and my sense of a total lack of serious mindedness to change the way Canadian rugby, Rugby Canada and it's provincial members have chosen to stay with the status quo while the proverbial Rome is burning.

In 17 years hence I would take a bet that this site will be the airing closet for all the same issues with some different faces in the seats or behind their keyboards.

Good luck and thanks for the many exciting and truly happy memories over those years.

Gordon McInnes a/k as Culloden and as Toothlesstiger.

p.s. I have not censored anything on this site for more than the past 2- 3 years.

Heavy, I cannot ban anyone, that is the admin.
Posts delete, I think I have deleted maybe 5 posts & one thread (Frank's Edmonton Gold one) and edit one post to add one link.
Heavy,son of Heavy or how many different names you logged in as, you should ask the Admin why he has a special place in his heart for you.

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Posted 8 months ago
Harry Craig
Member

I don't mind the piss being taken out on me even if it is by a ginger. I hope that the moderators and admin will not delete posts that do so. I was threatend with being banished for poating too often but it never happened. Gord hope to still see you around on occasion at Fletcher's or wherever. Thanks for all your contributions over the years.

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Posted 8 months ago
rusty_lock
Member

Personally I think the moderators do a good job on this forum allowing free expression without censorship. Thanks for making this forum available

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Posted 8 months ago
winger14
Moderator

Gord,

We'll miss ya! I understand how you feel.

As far as how often I "moderate", I'm hardly on. I'm finding a lot of the stuff on here lately kind of silly to be honest...

rusty_lock...Thanks!

Winger14

Posted 8 months ago #
OHBOY
Member

It seems to me that the wrong people (good people)seem to be moving away from the game, but who can blame them, you get shit on for trying to do the right thing. I wish the people that stand on the outside and point fingers, and make personal attacks on others becasue they have the audacity to disagree with them, would piss-off....

Posted 8 months ago #
onceabayalwaysabay
Member

This is my first post and will be my last.
I have been a reader of this forum for years. I was around when people posted on the Rugby Canada forum that got censored, hence the birth of Canadianrugby.com. (Thank you Moosehead et all.)
I am finally wading in to this discussion as a warning to all rugby fans in Canada.
Deal with the apathy and petty self-preservation at Rugby Canada now or forever be assigned to rugby’s tier two and three nations.
Since the early 90’s rugby has been my favourite sport. I have followed the world game and the game in Canada with great enthusiasm. I played and I supported the game with my dollars as often as I could.
That has changed. The petty bickering on this site and the overall apathy at Rugby Canada has soured me.
Too give you all some context; I would visit this site as well as BC Rugby News and Rugby Canada daily. I watched all games Canada played ( via great sites like myp2p.eu) and watched as many Canadians playing professionally as possible. (DTH and Tbone at Glasgow, Cudmore in France and even Kleeburger in his short stint in Auckland)I also played for many years in three different provinces.
The overall lack of imagination and stagnation of our game in Canada has finally gotten the better of me.
This is the first time in at least two months that I have logged into this site and what do I see. Culloden saying goodbye and Heavy asking why his posts are being deleted. Absolute drivel if you ask me. ( No offence meant to Culloden or Heavy)
Nothing has changed and unfortunately for the game of Rugby in Canada a lot needs to change. The board do nothing but insure their own survival and the CEO increases the amount of staff he supports while the game in this country goes backward.
To those that really care about this game, my thoughts are with you. Although I didn’t agree with all your posts I do know that you cared about the game in Canada.
Culloden – thank you for all you have done for the game. (Even if you do live in bantario ;-))
Heavy – your posts were always a good read
Smellyprop – I have missed your insight
Harry Craig – although you posted too often and were a pain in the a** your heart was in the right place
Faust (aka Sean Fauth) thank you for your contributions to the game even if your mod duties were questionable
Knower – huddy huddy
There are many more that I could comment on especially from the early days of this forum. I wish they were still here but unfortunately this is part of the issue with the sport of rugby in Canada. Too much BS from too few pushing the good ones away.
Hopefully we can all see things turn around, unfortunately I have given up and am not holding my breath.
And finally to the 2011 world cup squad. I know you will all do your best, but please don’t embarrass us. My kiwi friends will never let me hear the end of it.
God help rugby in Canada because the Canadians running the game have no clue.
Let the ripping apart of my post begin as I am done.

Posted 8 months ago #
Harry Craig
Member

Not a big fan of the Bays but it sounds like your heart isn the right place too. I won't ever give up.

Posted 8 months ago #
Faust
Moderator

Sean Fauth now? Nope.

Posted 8 months ago #
Son of Heavy
Member

Heavy was my father. I am Son of Heavy. Twice the size with half the calories.

I know for a FACT that G Brown, Tait and Sluggo used to read this site. Now I think it's been reduced to nattering about women's rights and private school limp wrists.

Who cares?

The bus is still broken. The same mouth-breathers are driving it, or kicking the tires instead of overhauling the engine. But such is life.

I also will never give up. Just like my father, heavy, who died in a tragic smelting accident.

Posted 8 months ago #
slackarse
Member

Sad ...

... but the proof of the pudding will be ...

Canada's results in the World Cup!

Or will it?

The game exists for its own sake and for the sake of those who have fun playing it.

If there's no FUN ... no enjoyment of the game itself, no player will stick around long enough to develop his skills to the point of being a professional, and being able to play for MERCENARY reasons.

(Geeze ... that'd be like going to the office for a 9-to-5 job. "I hate my job (playing rugby) ... but I gotta stay with it 'cause I need the salary." Who believes this?)

If it's not FUN (or fulfilling, in some way) for those who will never go pro, and make a living from it, then shoot it before it dies a lingering death.

Perhaps I'm a throwback and holdover from the old amateur days (when a try was worth only THREE points!), but ...

What is the POINT of playing rugby?

Ego? Bragging rights, as to how we "rank" in comparison with other nations (whose rugby history and circumstances may be FAR different, and more favourable, to them?)

I don't think so.

Build a rugby culture, at the local level, for the sake of what the game ITSELF has to offer ... in terms of sport, exercise, competition, fellowship, booze-ups and birds -

Emphasize personal excellence. Character-building.

Knock out the nonsense warm-and-fuzzy 'Canadian values' inclusiveness and various other feminized B.S.

Call out to young men who aspire to be 'hard' men, to test their testosterone against other young men ... but who also want to be good men, with a sense of decency, honour, and fair play.

You know ... all the good, old-fashioned honourable values and attributes.

... and watch what happens.

Not in a Rugby World Cup 4-year cycle. But eventually ...

The GAME's the thing ...

Not rankings and bragging rights.

Build the game ... the other stuff follows.

Posted 8 months ago #
Harry Craig
Member

Well said slackarse.

Posted 8 months ago #
Faust
Moderator

Admin, if you find others who want to moderate and are preferred , then you can take away my priviledges also.

Posted 8 months ago #
PALADIN
Member

Well said Slackarse! Do we need a slew of paid foreign
coaches to do this? I'm a proud
Canadian and believe that Canadian
coaches can do a better job.I see
nothing in Canadian or World Rugby
that would change my mind.

Posted 8 months ago #
growapair
Member

This was a shite thread to begin with but now it seems to have morphed into the most discouraging and disturbing one of recent memory.

The whinging and moaning on here has become increasingly unbearable but - and I hope I speak for most - a major positive of this site has been the quality of the moderators.

To see Toothless pack it in, and Faust offer to do the same, as well as winger disengaging due to the level of discourse, is very depressing indeed. It almost makes one want to join in and throw in the towel. Is this contagious?

What concerns me is that this is symptomatic of the downward spiral that is Canadian rugby. We need to give our heads a collective shake and rage against the dying of the light.

Toothless, Faust, winger - you are needed now more than ever. Without your voices of sanity we are one step closer to buggerdom.

Posted 8 months ago #
Juniorcoach
Member

"it's been reduced to nattering about women's rights"...
C'mon mate, that's a bit offside.

Posted 8 months ago #
admin
Key Master

Faust said:
Admin, if you find others who want to moderate and are preferred , then you can take away my privileges also.

If we can't maintain a few moderators that can volunteer their time what does this say about Canadian rugby? Just because Canadian rugby is not going the way you like it and moderating takes some time that is no reason to quit. No wonder Canadian rugby has issues. This site does not make money and in fact costs money, time and stress. If we can't maintain a few moderators then the site will have to be shut down as I am not prepared to moderate it 24 hours a day. Despite requests, no one has come forward to volunteer to write articles or post articles on the main site.

I do appreciate our current moderators and the time they have put in toward moderating the site. All of you have done an excellent job.

Posted 8 months ago #
Faust
Moderator

I know Fixx writes article for his Dog River, maybe Parfrey might want to write articles for the Rock.

Posted 8 months ago #
Son of Heavy
Member

Juniorcoach said:
"it's been reduced to nattering about women's rights"...
C'mon mate, that's a bit offside.

I don't come on here to read about the same tired crap. Instead of discourse on how to build Rugby in Canada from the ground up, we have a 20 page thread about Cowichan Valley Cucumber Sandwich 'Scholarships' or Board of Directors in bumblefunk nowhere not letting the women play on the showcase pitch. Who cares?

If noting that the discourse on this site has been reduced to nonsense facebook groups and high school boycotts is a bit offside, then so be it.

Posted 8 months ago #
Faust
Moderator

Suggestion Heavy, if you do not like the content, then go somewhere else or start your own forum. No one is forcing you to read these topics or comment on them.

Posted 8 months ago #
irishlock
Member

Or better yet, stay on here and improve the level of discourse and maybe even make a few people laugh at the same time...

Posted 8 months ago #
growapair
Member

irishlock said:
Or better yet, stay on here and improve the level of discourse and maybe even make a few people laugh at the same time...

I'll second that motion. Son of Heavy Piss-take is at least good for a laugh - all due respect, Son of.

If we can't have a forum on rugby in Canada that has a laugh while discussing the vagaries of the world's finest game, then what's the point?

When did Canadians become such a fragile, boring group of people that take offence at everything and can't take a joke at their own expense?

Posted 8 months ago #
Harry Craig
Member

I think I take the ribbing pretty well and maybe it is well deserved.

Posted 8 months ago #