The good, the bad and the…

It really grinds you down...

 

This past 2 weeks have been a pain. At the moment I am totally pissed off with everything to do with the Steelers. The forum should be a place of chat, talk and debate. It should be a fun place, but at the moment it is a painful place to even visit. Some of you know me personally, most of you don’t. Some of you are people I call friends, some of you very dear to me. Some of you are just acquaintances, and a lot of you, I have no knowledge of apart from a username and a posting style. You may have noticed over the years, that at no time, ever, have I posted anything abusive about any person on this forum. Or on any other form of social media, as I find this hypocritical of the rules on here and also somewhat childish. But this obviously means nothing, as certain people seem to think that a person who is doing a job of moderation is also open to free season of online abuse from any quarter. Maybe if they understood what the job entailed, they may think differently. Maybe if they removed the blinkers they may realise what we have had to do over the years. Maybe if they actually sat down and thought through things objectively, instead of just wrapping cotton wool around their heads and accepting the first thought that pops in, they would maybe see that this job is full of hard work and unpopular decisions.

For me, at the moment, I have taken the steps of having a break from the forum, due to the amount of abuse being circulated by people who know very little and who understand even less. Maybe they would post less of this abuse, if they realised some of it is bordering on being illegal and a certain amount is actually very libellous.

All I can see at the moment is more and more warnings and bans given out to people who simply cannot see past the ends of their own keyboards, and this in itself is very sad.

 

Closing for the time being, as I might say something I don’t really want to.

 

Mart.