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Question to the mod who keeps deleting threads today
- Thread starter Buzzer
- Start date
*sigh* I think you'll find the "inner circle" is a figment of Wozza's imagination.
Deleting two threads because one person asked a question that one of the directors of the club might not like is perfectly normal and happens all the time.
Lokki 7
WSU
I've been posting, and before that lurking on NSC for 6 years but I am completely surprised by the recent thread deletions. I'm starting to view the site in a very different light, which is a shame. I vote Wozza for the next mod slot.
Stumpy Tim
Well-known member
Move on everyone. There's nothing to see here.
BUT, theoretically like, if a Brighton Director - let's call him DelBoy Chipman to avoid any confusion - was facing bankruptcy... what would that mean to the Albion?
BUT, theoretically like, if a Brighton Director - let's call him DelBoy Chipman to avoid any confusion - was facing bankruptcy... what would that mean to the Albion?
Brighton till i die
You havin' a bubble?
Stumpy Tim
Well-known member
Funny the ones around Northern Rock, Lehman Bros etc weren't removed? Is that cos our mods are MATES with Chapman?
Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!
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It looked potentially libellous to me; couldn't see what the post author was trying to achieve either.
Didn't Wozza used to BE a mod when he was called Nathan Barley? In fact I believe that it was a direct result of his NAZI modding that NSP got set up ...
BTW I was fully expecting to be banned today under the 'don't abuse other posters' rule. Just so so you know it's ok to call people pea-brained moronic wankers and sad fuckers without it being deemed insulting.
Tooting Gull
Well-known member
- Jul 5, 2003
- 11,033
To be fair to the mods, when you're considering libel/slander type stuff the audience is a factor. Lies about Derek Chapman (if they were) on here would do him far more damage than some thread about Northern Rock/Lehman would do them, because of the audience.
I've got no idea whether it was true or not what was posted, but I do know that you need to err on the side of caution with stuff like that if you haven't got a scooby.
I've got no idea whether it was true or not what was posted, but I do know that you need to err on the side of caution with stuff like that if you haven't got a scooby.
Smythe
Active member
Not really that pesonal as he was talking about the difficulties he was having in the Argus, as posted by LB, i just managed to read it before it was deleted.
Stumpy Tim
Well-known member
I would imagine claiming that Archer wanted to sell the Goldstone for personal gain would have been libellous too.
The real issue is that people close to the club are deleting threads. This isn't China
I'm telling you now, there was nothing remotely libellous in Smythe's original post. In fact that whole thread was going nowhere until Colbourne Kid stuck his oar in.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Didn't a football director take out legal action against a message board recently and is that a clue as to why the deletion ?
Lokki 7
WSU
Top post.
Tooting Gull
Well-known member
- Jul 5, 2003
- 11,033
You don't want threads deleted and it's a fine line, good judgment is called for and a bit of libel law knowledge wouldn't go amiss, although that is a big ask for a message-board mod.
Freedom of speech should be basically just that - but occasionally it comes with a bit of responsibility. You could argue, for different reasons, that it's the same with racist stuff.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
- Thread starter
- #19
The evening argus quotes a boss who saysa that turnover is down 90% and he's laid off 80% of his workforce. Subsequently a bloke on here says that he hears the company is in trouble. I see no libel there.
And since when does a post on nsc need a point? If that was the case my post count would be 2
Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!
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I think a poster on the Doncaster message board was successfully sued for libel last year. My memory's not perfect so it may have been a different club; I don't know whether the wronged party was a club director.