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Martin Phillp
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Wasn't there a previous ban on registrations during the summer holidays at the blue and Rob's forum?
TVF's London Lite.
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Inspector Sands
- Posts: 366
- Joined: Wed 25 Aug, 2004 00.37
- Location: London
Not been here for a while. Looking back at the various conversations about moderation, Pres Cafes rather strict enforcing has generally made it a nice place to be, much more controlled than it's predecessors.... in a good way
However some of it's just nonsensical. If a reply needs to be under 30 characters then that's how long it needs. If you want me to fill it with waffle then I will pollute the forum with waffle. I even got a warning for filling to the required character limit.
It's all very well having restrictions on 'websnatched' material, but not blanket bans on channels when they're not publishing a list of which channels they are. The number of times I've wanted to post a relevant video only to have it rejected because the YouTube account stole a clip 15 years ago. How am I meant to know that?
The same goes with social media accounts - totally up to their whim of where information can come from. Posted news of a channel launch date last night, link from what looks like a perfectly good TV news source on Twitter. This morning it had gone, but I couldn't actually remember if I'd actually posted it so posted the information again as a post without the Twitter link. That went as well and then a warning because I posted from an untrusted source and I need to assess quality and reliability of sources before I post.
Well thank you Mr Moderator, decades in the media, years working in a newsroom, a degree in the subject..... I'm quite capable of judging that this is reliable information from an established account with a few thousand posts. I'm not some kid posting any old nonsense.
Another post on a different thread with details about new radio stations starts 'according to another forum'. So how come hearsay from Digital Spy is reliable, but they can pick and choose actual online news sources.
I think it would be very different if it wasn't connected to other social media accounts who post TV news and a website that dresses up it's odd opinions into what it thinks are worthy and important articles.
Rant over.
Hello everyone by the way
However some of it's just nonsensical. If a reply needs to be under 30 characters then that's how long it needs. If you want me to fill it with waffle then I will pollute the forum with waffle. I even got a warning for filling to the required character limit.
It's all very well having restrictions on 'websnatched' material, but not blanket bans on channels when they're not publishing a list of which channels they are. The number of times I've wanted to post a relevant video only to have it rejected because the YouTube account stole a clip 15 years ago. How am I meant to know that?
The same goes with social media accounts - totally up to their whim of where information can come from. Posted news of a channel launch date last night, link from what looks like a perfectly good TV news source on Twitter. This morning it had gone, but I couldn't actually remember if I'd actually posted it so posted the information again as a post without the Twitter link. That went as well and then a warning because I posted from an untrusted source and I need to assess quality and reliability of sources before I post.
Well thank you Mr Moderator, decades in the media, years working in a newsroom, a degree in the subject..... I'm quite capable of judging that this is reliable information from an established account with a few thousand posts. I'm not some kid posting any old nonsense.
Another post on a different thread with details about new radio stations starts 'according to another forum'. So how come hearsay from Digital Spy is reliable, but they can pick and choose actual online news sources.
I think it would be very different if it wasn't connected to other social media accounts who post TV news and a website that dresses up it's odd opinions into what it thinks are worthy and important articles.
Rant over.
Hello everyone by the way
Can you share with us the perfectly good TV news source that they wouldn't allow so we can see it too as that does seem a bit unusual?Inspector Sands wrote: ↑Mon 09 Sep, 2024 20.28 The same goes with social media accounts - totally up to their whim of where information can come from. Posted news of a channel launch date last night, link from what looks like a perfectly good TV news source on Twitter. This morning it had gone, but I couldn't actually remember if I'd actually posted it so posted the information again as a post without the Twitter link. That went as well and then a warning because I posted from an untrusted source and I need to assess quality and reliability of sources before I post.
Well thank you Mr Moderator, decades in the media, years working in a newsroom, a degree in the subject..... I'm quite capable of judging that this is reliable information from an established account with a few thousand posts. I'm not some kid posting any old nonsense.
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Newsroom2018
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Inspector Sands, I always found your input on all of the forums to be interesting, relevant etc... The moderation of pres cafe makes absolutely zero sense as mentioned by so so many people here.
My frustration at not being able to post is long gone. Rarely look at it because there is very little content of interest and that's because of the moderation and the banning and the fleeing of members who are just over it all.
What is the point in spending time on a forum that is managed, moderated like the folk from Gilead. It's pathetic.
Time to move on chap, it's a wasteland, it's Irrelevant.
My frustration at not being able to post is long gone. Rarely look at it because there is very little content of interest and that's because of the moderation and the banning and the fleeing of members who are just over it all.
What is the point in spending time on a forum that is managed, moderated like the folk from Gilead. It's pathetic.
Time to move on chap, it's a wasteland, it's Irrelevant.