I think that might be the final straw for me at the RailUK forums

[mauvais]

An excerpt: Can someone tell me what the hell has happened to the 16:55 from Blackfriars?? - Page 4 - RailUK Forums

 

[ska invita]

I'm only banned for a week, but I'm thinking I won't go back anyway, because the way the place is run just winds me up. It's THE most bizarrely moderated forum I've ever had the displeasure of being a member of. I'd already severely curtailed my posting (after previously being pretty prolific) after my last run in with the powers that be a few years ago.

Quitter

 

[maomao]

It's pretty easy to Google.

I can't find anything by Bungle73 later than November 24th

 

[keybored]

How?
Found the forum but couldn't find the thread

Same username.

 

[maomao]

An excerpt: Can someone tell me what the hell has happened to the 16:55 from Blackfriars?? - Page 4 - RailUK Forums

Lol. It's like he gets savaged by a dozen clones of himself.

 

[Spymaster]

 

[mauvais]

It ends here: Can someone tell me what the hell has happened to the 16:55 from Blackfriars?? - Page 5 - RailUK Forums

 

[existentialist]

An excerpt: Can someone tell me what the hell has happened to the 16:55 from Blackfriars?? - Page 4 - RailUK Forums

It's all strangely familiar.

 

[keybored]

Is everyone Googling bungle73 so much it's triggered their botnet detection?

 

[maomao]

I'm struggling to believe that Bungle doesn't check his trains before every journey. I think someone has killed him and stolen his login.

 

[Bungle73]

What's the forum/thread title so we can all give our opinion on whether you deserved to be banned?

It got binned.....and this was after after a mod had already made a public statement about it, and about the behaviour of the participants.

 

[existentialist]

It ends here: Can someone tell me what the hell has happened to the 16:55 from Blackfriars?? - Page 5 - RailUK Forums

Doesn't look like particularly bizarre moderating to me. Obviously they're a bit less tolerant of bunfightitude than here, but seems pretty reasonable to me. The behaviour they're dealing with is a nice example of what sheothebudworths referred to as "FURY"

 

[maomao]

It got binned.....and this was after after a mod had already made a public statement about it, and about the behaviour of the participants.

It's ok. We've all found it now. Not sure if you deserved to be banned but I hope you've learned your lesson about not checking timetables before setting out on a journey. Apparently there's even a handy app that can help now.

 

[Bungle73]

Doesn't look like particularly bizarre moderating to me. Obviously they're a bit less tolerant of bunfightitude than here, but seems pretty reasonable to me. The behaviour they're dealing with is a nice example of what sheothebudworths referred to as "FURY"

Undermining a previous decision already made by a mod, that's the way to run a forum.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Lol. It's like he gets savaged by a dozen clones of himself.

AW

I totally do check the train times before every journey, too!

 

[Spymaster]

Undermining a previous decision already made by a mod, that's the way to run a forum.

I think you asked for it, tbh.

The other posters were making perfectly valid points and you got the arse.

 

[Spymaster]

I totally do check the train times before every journey, too!

Absolutely. Who doesn't?

 

[teuchter]

It's a strange thing to be enthusiastic about.

What are your criteria for things that are not strange to be enthusiastic about?

 

[Orang Utan]

What are your criteria for things that are not strange to be enthusiastic about?

Too boring to list. But entertaining things in general. Not transport.

 

[Spymaster]

What are your criteria for things that are not strange to be enthusiastic about?

Things that don't attract an inordinate number of dickheads.

 

[existentialist]

Undermining a previous decision already made by a mod, that's the way to run a forum.

Happens. It's what goes on when people interact, even mods. People disagree, change their minds, revise their opinions.

Your life would be infinitely easier if you were able to admit that you are sometimes wrong. It's the reliability with which you won't admit that which makes a Bungle thread a source of amusement here. Although that is helped by the furiously angry posting style , which is probably what earned you the ban in the other place.

 

[Bungle73]

I think you asked for it, tbh.

The other posters were making perfectly valid points and you got the arse.

Then I'll put the same point to you as I did them: why would anyone consult changes to services at a station that has nothing to do with the journey they want to make?

Absolutely. Who doesn't?

Someone who already knows the times of the services that they wan't to catch?

 

[existentialist]

Absolutely. Who doesn't?

Sometimes, I didn't used to.

There, I said it.

But seriously...if you're on a non-time-critical journey where it doesn't matter if you miss a connection or arrive 10 mins late, *shrug*. If you're trying to make a tight connection half way across the country*...well, I'd have checked the timetable AND be refreshing the realtimetrains page for my train on a minute by minute basis . Probably with multiple windows for all the other legs of the journey, too...

*basically, any journey which, if significantly messed up, is going to prompt you to take to the Internet to protest about it.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Also - you got banned AGAIN? You got banned from a train forum TWICE?

 

[Bungle73]

Also - you got banned AGAIN? You got banned from a train forum TWICE?

The last time was years ago.

 

[existentialist]

Then I'll put the same point to you as I did them: why would anyone consult changes to services at a station that has nothing to do with the journey they want to make?


Someone who already knows the times of the services that they wan't to catch?

Except you didn't. Because they had changed. Cache miss.

 

[teuchter]

Things that don't attract an inordinate number of dickheads.

Any examples?

 

[existentialist]

Also - you got banned AGAIN? You got banned from a train forum TWICE?

You get a special lapel badge on your third banning, to go just above your enamel Deltic one.

 

[Spymaster]

Then I'll put the same point to you as I did them: why would anyone consult changes to services at a station that has nothing to do with the journey they want to make?

Because they are not stupid.

 

[Spymaster]

Any examples?

Loads. But they wouldn't interest you.