Removed thread

Heavy handedness…here?, Never!

What I find amusing is the
usual explanation that the topic had run its course.
If one goes to the general discussion page, we see a BREXIT thread which had degenerated into to blokes still arguing after everyone else has left the party.
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Several other threads ( “news”, film reviews, etc.) are largely the contributions of just one person…I would argue that they need to be on a social media account, not a forum.

Then we have also had in the distant past, mods allowing (or even contributing to) various anti-religion, purely political or anti-American rants, occasionally including not so veiled insults (including wishing the death of Margaret Thatcher) and other purely subjective threads and posts going unchecked.

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Geoff, quoting a newspaper article isn’t exactly punishable by law.

There does seem to be overzealous heavy handedness on this forum, which is a real pity.

Interestingly the thread on the Pprune Mil forum has one of Andy Hill’s defence barristers posting (Legalapproach).

He doesn’t seem even slightly interested in some of the more colourful posts in the thread…!

The Scum and Faily Daily should be condemned and banished to save the forests .

Hi All,
KurtB – Please accept my apologies as I fear it was my fault for posting alleged comments that where published in an article by The SUN. A rag which I fear is much despised on here, but it only has itself to blame as questionable journalism seems to be a trait all to often with a number of articles over the years. Being perfectly honest though which rag hasn’t been guilty of the odd one or two articles in the past at some time ?

I was only trying to show how there was a commonality between Mr Eric Browns comments featured in (Post 368 by Paul178) and alleged former colleagues of Mr Hill and they’re opinion of him as a pilot, seeing as they where anonymous sources you obviously would call the report into question.

Again if I was to blame I apologise unreservedly…… 😮

Geoff.

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If it wasn’t a Mod who binned it, then a Mod would be unlikely to want to reinstate it. It patently wasn’t Bruce, and it wasn’t me as I was on leave.

Can I suggest you raise the matter direct with the webmaster?

Moggy

Hi Moggy,
I tried to send you a PM, but it said your inbox was full. Please can you tell me how to message the webmaster please?
Thank you,
Kurt

Certainly the last time I looked at it, I couldn’t see anything that was contentious. It was a sensible discusion about the trial and its outcome. Compared with some of the pitchfork comments on the dark side, I’d have thought it unlikey to attract any attention. Very odd…

If it wasn’t a Mod who binned it, then a Mod would be unlikely to want to reinstate it. It patently wasn’t Bruce, and it wasn’t me as I was on leave.

Can I suggest you raise the matter direct with the webmaster?

Moggy

… and you take full responsibility for everything that was published in it? I really don’t think you want to do that.

It was my thread! Please can the mods reinstate it, but perhaps lock it?

“””tedious”””….to whom ?? I am sure there will have been some (many ??) who found it of great interest.

It was a tedious thread anyway and stopping it was not surprising

. I was really just thinking about guidance for the future about how not to libel,

Such matters are rarely ‘black and white’; a solicitor may well threaten legal action over something that is on the margins (either way) of libellous, just to get it removed, thus it is easier for the Admins just to pull the whole thread.

Closing the thread because the case is now closed seems odd. PPRuNe closed their in-trial thread early and the one here stayed open with a few judicious warnings, but their post-trial thread was alive and kicking a couple of hours ago. This suggests that there was something even more out of order than some of the posts I read on here. Like many posters I am always curious about why a thread needs to be killed. The answer is usually obvious to the last viewer of the thread.

It is understandable why it was pulled. Unfortunately the law works in “mysterious” ways not only for the court matter in question but also towards potentially slanderous comments. The jury made their decision. Speculation as to how or why can have unintended consequences.

Whoever did it could have locked it instead..

I suspect it was because the case has now closed – so any ongoing discussion could be termed as questionable. Yes, I agree it was mostly a good thread – with one or two exceptions!

1bf – have emptied my inbox – do try again!

Bruce

Ah, ok. Scotavia, of course I wasn’t suggesting anyone wrote “You can’t say (insert disallowed phrase here) on a forum and that’s why we pulled it”. Maybe ‘Precise reasons’ isn’t quite what I meant. I was really just thinking about guidance for the future about how not to libel, or be offensive, or whatever it was, or even which of the rules were broken. There was a good conversation about a deeply serious topic in the midst of some questionable commentary in there, and it was a shame to lose it.

Hi All,
Bruce – Well just PM me please.

Geoff.