:o :cry:

Better without it ladies.

i would if i could:cry:

for once i agree with you :lol:

Once again, congrats on ruining it for all of us, fuckstick. Go back to TWGF... oh wait.

i guess it depends on what your definition of out of hand is. If that is 8 polls on the front page then all is well with the world because something was done. congratulations you got your wish. If the 500 post limit was put in place you would just get people like me spamming the place with QFT and +1 and :lol: till the mark was reached. and then the polls would continue. you would have achieved nowt.

:lol:

That is a :-({|= worthy comment.

I think if you look back my feedback was not to complain that polls should be banned but that something must be done to limit the amount of stupid polls by relatively new forumites so that things don't get out of hand. I still maintain that if there was an easy way to limit polls to those people with over 500 post count then things would be much more civilised.

I love a good lolz by the pollcat as much as the next guy.

Edited by anth: 5/10/2010 02:09:17 PM

:-({|=

Glad to be of service. :lol: :lol:

TBH scouse I agree with you, i was having a bit of a laugh and had started 3 polls, i notice you were having a laugh be starting one also. The fact that the moderators saw fit to remove our polling ability because of that smacks of a power trip. however a few people had complained about having a few polls on the front page so possibly the mods were acting on the behalf of a vocal minority who took exception to a couple of posters using polls to generate lolz.

As i said in my last post in this thread the actions taken say more about the mods and complainants than those who were making polls.

This is why I made the complaint in the first place.

I'm not happy we can no longer make polls but the poll douchebaggery was getting out of hand and something had to be done.

Thanks for ruining it for all of us, fuckstick. Then you wonder why people are hostile towards you knobends from TWGF...

I think the stats were there were 8 polls on the front page. I did 3 on pertinent visual appeal issues around the A-league. There was already one about best logo (which was my muse). then there was a poll about brosque, the westies and then a poll about polls.

If that is more than the forum can handle and a reason for removing the ability to poll users then there is either an existing discrimination towards polls or heavy handed moderation.

Now look, I understand that it is FFT's interest to moderate this place pretty strictly as it forms an important part of they commercial operation, but if we can't have a bit fun and use relatively basic features on a standard forum then the place also becomes and unattractive place for attracting new users.

IMO (from personal experience) being called a spastic, retard, d..khead, of little value, Shit poster, and serveal other expletives as well, as i have, is a much greater put off to new users and potential advertisers than a few new forumites trying to have a few laughs and set up a lasting impression. So ban, sorry, suspended me if you like, and take away our forum privledges for having some fun, but whilst people continue to get away with blatent breaches of forum rules (discriminating against ex TWGFers and using abusive language) without punishment this place will not improve and attract many new active members.

can't we just ban particular people from making polls then while letting everyone else still be able to make then?

Well I have no issue with PAOKTZI not being able to make polls, but that is just bias. So if no one else can make one to prevent him from doing it I can live with it ;)

My Alex Brosque poll was a bit of fun - isn't that what this forum is about, as well as serious discussion?

This thread is 'unnecessary' as well, isn't it? Most threads are, aren't they?

Seems like an out of proportion response to an incredibly small "problem".

Sly was banned for something else entirely - which you can't see because the post has since been deleted. Sly has been PMd about it already, hence his absence in the thread he created.

And again, it wasn't just sly. Paoktzi, Therk, scouse, adelutdfan, subbeteo, cbowden had all made unneccessary polls within 1 day of each other.

It is a slight over reaction since there was what? 10-12 polls made? Wasn't the original reason polls were stopped because they were being used to make stupid attacks on other forum members (Joffa in particular from memory)? The best thing that could have been done to those useless polls was shift them to Extra Time and PM the creator (Sly v2.0) and ask him to stop - could have answered his query as to why he was slapped with a 12 month ban for the ~7 posts he made which contained two annoying things, the idiot comment and the new dawner comment.

Then we could continue to have the option to make polls, which most people aren't interested in doing anyway.

So all of us are being punished for TWGF invaders not having sufficient forum etiquette? Ridiculous.

Why should I give you the credit for awesome poll ideas, imno? ;)

No.




Did you see AF yesterday? Half the front page was polls, and a lot of them stupid ones.

It was being abused and it's no surprise it's gone.

If you have a legitimate poll question, you can ask one of the mods and we'll gladly put it up for you.

It's not like it's even gotten out of hand.

facepalm.

Ban everyone.

Check Extra Time for the alternative... is that really what we want?

This is complete bullshit.

Just because some douchebags make a million polls I can't make my fucking hilarious ones?

:(

:lol: :lol: :lol:

That was me ;)

:lol: I thought you had read about how Heine got his post count so high!

Ok so that how one gains some street cred around here.

coolio, will try it out

thnx anth

Totally wanted to start a poll stating this.

The irony of the situation is quite tasty.

Why not!? He has a AFC C License according to decentric!

God I hope not [-o<

+1 QFT

But we know the shit stirrers will piss off and you have to give everyone else a chance to settle in over their first 100 odd posts - give them a bit of rope, some will hange themselves with it and others will turn into Heine ;)