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Not talking about you KK or IJWT, I'm reffering to the grumpy 'we don't want your kind here' brigade

i worked over at Ubon uni. for a few months (acting as cover for an ajarn that had mysteriously gone awol). interestingly as they were suffering from budgetry constraints offered me a buffalo in part-payment of salary... how odd was that?

Yeah, but was she good looking?

Well, for any interested parties, Ajarn Forum is very much alive and members are starting to come back, and the board is now stable with twice daily back-ups (which actually restore if data is lost). If you are unhappy with the over moderation on here, and want to post in a more moderate atmosphere, then you know where to come. I shudder to think this place actually considers Harry Palmer a troll....

I think that Phils current sig says it all. Do the hardline approach and you end up with sickbucket, go the softly softly route and you end up with a board full of trolls. What would you have me do. Where do we draw the lines?

Do we allow Smeg to keep posting? Personally I don't think that he does enough to warrent banning aside from the fact that he touts an unpopular viewpoint ad nauseum.

Believe it or not I am not 100% in charge of policy here and I'd like to think that the other admins can give me some guidance here. I'm seeing a lot of disquiet here and it's all aimed at me despite me being only one of the 3 admins.

To be quite honest I'd much rather get on with the technical side of the board and leave the human side to other people, however since everyon is looking to me on this, I'll go along with a slightly more uncompromising approach if that's what a majority want, however theres a fine line we tread, and one ban in the wrong place and suddenly I'm an undemocratic nazi ###### bent on stifling fee speech...the Smilys and IJWTs of this world are happy, but others suddenly leap on me for it. Damned if I do damned if I don't.

Thanks Smiley for your descision to bitch about me on another forum rather than PM me with your concerns. FYI, Justin aka DD is now switched off. I am not in favour of banning people, for the very reasons outlined above by Harry, and I will not take lectures from you Smiley on the best ways to handle rowdy posters. It is far more simple to just ignore idiots, than having to second guess what their new nik is.

The reason I did not ban Justin straight away last night was because I was very pissed last night and it was all I could do to tap out what I did say, there are other admin on Ajarn... (and banning whilst pissed is never a good idea no matter who it is.)

For now the board is stable...backups are being made twice a day, and unlike on Ikon Board these back-ups can actually restore everything.

I am confident that the board will recover it's lost membership and become as strong as before.

I thought Marko made regular backups of the board...his conversations with Phil in the mods room would certainly suggest so...is it an inherent dificulty of Ikonboard to accept host changes without losing all the content and stats? Ah well, lets all occupy Thaivisa whilst it all sorted...