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[onetrickpony]

Well tonight, i have come into critise the show because of the Dot baby storyline. I thought thats where you come to critise the show?

[Jamez]

Well tonight, i have come into critise the show because of the Dot baby storyline. I thought thats where you come to critise the show?

Before you can criticise anything, it would help if you could spell it!

And to think I wasted my 2000th post giving you spelling tips! :roll:

[onetrickpony]

Erm... what's this argument about?

From what I can gather, it's a silly, childish round of handbag bashing. Calm down. It's only the freakin' internet!

This all comes down to the fact that while CRITISING EastEnders in the Trouble with EE thread, i mentioned what i did like - ive been effectivly beaten up by Pad.

Edit : i know, i have trouble with the criticise (just got it correct from TVF)

[Anonymous]

Well tonight, i have come into critise the show because of the Dot baby storyline. I thought thats where you come to critise the show?

Before you can criticise anything, it would help if you could spell it!

And to think I wasted my 2000th post giving you spelling tips! :roll:

Happy 2000th post.

And Shaun, just SHUT UP. Get over it - I don't like you. I find you irritating, as do others. Don't try and act like I'm abusing you or I've killed your parents or something. This is a forum, and you are a grown man. Some people don't like me either and you don't see me crying into my cornflakes.

[Jamez]

Erm... what's this argument about?

From what I can gather, it's a silly, childish round of handbag bashing. Calm down. It's only the freakin' internet!

This all comes down to the fact that while CRITISING EastEnders in the Trouble with EE thread, i mentioned what i did like - ive been effectivly beaten up by Pad.

Does it *really* matter? The world isn't going to end just because some numpty is giving you a load of grief on TV Forum.

Ignore the fools and the fools will eventually ignore you.

[onetrickpony]

Ok Pad, Fair Enough.

[onetrickpony]

Erm... what's this argument about?

From what I can gather, it's a silly, childish round of handbag bashing. Calm down. It's only the freakin' internet!

This all comes down to the fact that while CRITISING EastEnders in the Trouble with EE thread, i mentioned what i did like - ive been effectivly beaten up by Pad.

Does it *really* matter? The world isn't going to end just because some numpty is giving you a load of grief on TV Forum.

Ignore the fools and the fools will eventually ignore you.

But i want to get along with Pad, i just want to try and get along with everyone. We are all so quick to attack.

It's over now, but thanks for advice.

[Nick Harvey]

I must confess that I couldn't care a twopenny toss what you say in the other place, but I AM finding your arguments about what you may, or may not have said elsewhere considerably annoying when they're HERE.

Please get on you bleedin' pony and leave forthwith.

[Gavin Scott]

I must confess that I couldn't care a twopenny toss what you say in the other place, but I AM finding your arguments about what you may, or may not have said elsewhere considerably annoying when they're HERE.

Please get on your bleedin' pony and leave forthwith.

It's certainly in the right thread for intra-forum matters, but it does seem to be mentioned in full in both places.

Shaun, it's nice for people to get along but it doesn't always work out that way. If it doesn't don't sweat it.

The core of the problem was a misdirected element of your critical post in the Trouble with EastEnders thread. Praise goes in one thread, criticism in the other. Don't read too much into things.

It shouldn't be necessary to segregate members with opposing views, but Banksoriginal was a dominating force in the original thread, and stifled the debate at every turn. He was becoming a kind of twisted missionary for the programme. It would have been easier to ban him, but that would be quite wrong.

[Square Eyes]

How amusing, a feud between pad and onetrickdick.

I am no fan of the show (I prefer the northern soap), however the segregation of Eastenders comment into separate threads for positive and negative comment is absurd, and goes against the whole spirit of the forum. Every other thread seems to cope with the concept of opposing points of view, even at extreme ends of the scale yet Eastenders it seems can't.

If I want to make comment in the negative Eastenders thread that June Brown has put in an Oscar winning performance and Eastenders should win the BAFTA, then I bloody well will without fear of admonishment from pad and his cronies. What happens if the show turns the corner ? Is everyone going back into the positive thread ? Like all other discussions, this is not a black and white debate.

Banksoriginal for all his faults, is just vociferous in his support for the programme and is no more right or wrong than anyone else with the opposing point of view but because this doesn't fit with the agenda of some members, we have this ridiculous state of affairs of ghettoised discussion. Bad move, but credit to Banks for provoking such an extreme outcome, unprecedented in TV Forum history.

All this has really achieved however, is for the stifling of debate to occur in reverse in favour of the odious pad and co.

[Anonymous]

If I want to make comment in the negative Eastenders thread that June Brown has put in an Oscar winning performance and Eastenders should win the BAFTA, then I bloody well will without fear of admonishment from pad and his cronies.

And I'm sure you will, but that defeats the object of the two threads.

How can you say it's absurd? If anyone dared to criticise the show (oh, look, I can spell the word) in the old thread, Banks or Shaun (or both) would go into a sort of hyperactive fury and start going mental about it. "If you don't like it don't watch it" "even if it was an episode of Corrie but called EastEnders you'd still hate it" and it just got utterly pathetic and caused more feuds. The segregation was a good move, because, short of banning Banks which, as Gavin said, would be wrong, the thread would never be one in which anyone could voice their negative opinion on the show without having randomly generated, ill-thought retorts sent back to them.

I think it all depends on whether the opinion is one that is felt generally by more than one person (or two: Banks and Shaun). In that case, it would probably be fine to post praise in the negative thread. But when you get Shaun posting ad nauseum in the negative thread about positive things NO ONE ELSE agrees with, it really fucks everyone off.

All this has really achieved however, is for the stifling of debate to occur in reverse in favour of the odious pad and co.

No, there is a General Thread for talk about storylines, in which Banks and Shaun can cream themselves over Stacey/Max etc, then there's the - more popular, can't think why - "trouble with..." thread, which can be used for discussing the faults with the show.

This was set out in the opening post of each thread. So no, Square Eyes, it has not simply reversed the favours from Banks to 'pad and co' (quite what you mean by that is a mystery to me, but have fun with that), it has sorted out the previous feud. That said, in sorting the previous feud a new one has begun.