Originally Posted by
JennyWren
That's not the REAL Croesy but someone who started using the handle to annoy the real Croesy.
I have, currently, 10 accounts that I will use as backup for my inevitable banning. Sounds odd and or excessive right? I agree, but here is my history on this board over the years.
Started as Euclid. Received threats from prominent user that, when reported to the inconsistent Mike Morris, nothing happened. When those threats then displayed homophobic language and emails ( I used to share my real name and email address) I again complained to Morris. Nothing happened. At the time the prominent user was advertising books on the site and Morris allowed that together with threats and homophobic speech, and when I told him I could no longer post - he said diddly squat. The reason I was getting grief? I was criticising the hooligan element at the club.
Prominent user leaves to set up his own board, so I started posting as Loya Jirga which evolved to Kaiser Jirga II after Germany beat England. I soon started getting threats from a different user for criticising Hammam, including this user mentioning the make of car I drove and where I lived. Complaints again to Morris . All ignored. Thames Valley Bluebird did act but, again the person issuing the threats received no ban. However, at the exact same time the person issuing the threats complained about a joke from Baker - Baker was banned. For a joke that only the threatening poster found offensive!
This time, I carried on posting and part of these postings were criticising Ridsdale. Note the pattern!!!!! I have a history of criticising shit owners. That'll come in handy as you read on (I appreciate I've lost 95pc of readers already because of tl;dr). Apparently, at this time I was a "good" poster because the majority of people agreed with me.
Then there was the rebrand. I criticised Tan, and still do. But Tan spends money, now I am a "bad" poster for criticising. I am banned for the crime of pointing out the terrible crime of pointing out the stupidity of Cardiff selling two keepers in one window. A one year ban at that, one year more than the poster who made homophobic and threatening posts to me, one year more than the poster giving out personal details, and 51 weeks more than the poster who made a joke about under age sex.
So, I set up other accounts.
Three were banned sine die for "derailing a thread, trolling and being a shit stirrer". That is a lifetime longer than the homophobic and threatening poster, one lifetime longer than.... You get it.
By the way, that ban was because, in one thread, the poster boy of the forum, derailed a thread by asking me a hypothetical question about Tan which I replied to be saying I would answer his questions in PM. Now, bear in mind that I did about 20-30 hours of unacknowledged, uncredited work for this poster - I assumed he had the social fortitude and respect to leave that debate offline. But, no, instead he responded in public. When I replied in public three accounts were banned sine die for "trolling". even though I was answering direct questions.
After the FA Cup Final a few people mentioned they hadn't made recordings of the game. I made recordings and handed them to the posters at the game. Some people offered to pay or buy a drink and I refused because I like to do people favours. Those favours are quickly forgotten if you have the temerity to challenge the perceived norm on here.
Other favours... Giving my fan number to Blue Matt (we had a decent chat queuing for Barnsley tickets for 7 hours), getting match day programmes for Caliburn, giving advice to SecureRed that got him out of a real problem (he very quickly forgot that too, calling me a prick here within a day) picking people up to get them to games.... all ok until you point out the owner is a slippery sod who cannot be trusted. But, I'd do all those things at the drop of a hat again - except the proof reading of TOBW's book, that was literally a thankless task - because I believe in community.
Mike will refute all the above, his memory is terribly selective as is his implementation of GDPR rules with him passing on details of IP addresses - those posts soon disappeared when he realised he had ****ed that up too.
**** you all
#inb4theban #willbedeleted #echochambersRUs #9moreaccountd
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