Topic: Off-topic replies

[littlechilie]

Great looking food there from Loveitspicy and Livo, how nice to see the thread back on track. Will PM you Livo 

Sverige, as it was yourself who managed to derail the latest thread after my on posted reply to StuPot, this you followed by your personal attack and then you post the above? Why?

[livo]

You should read the PM he just sent me. ROFLM**O.  Joined up 6 months ago. Has posted diddly squat about curry.

185 posts in as many days (his entire membership period give or take a few days). Apparently not one of the posts of any meaningfulness to the primary topic of the forum at all, and claims to have recently cooked 35 curries over a single weekend without a single photograph or story about it to put up on a Curry Forum Website he visits daily to butt in on.

Yeah right.  I'm in.

[littlechilie]

Livo, might be a good idea to contact CH, how you proceed if it's a direct attack CH should help out I'm sure.

Phil brought this very subject up in a recent post, members and mods should not have to put up with direct message bullying tactics.

[livo]

I'm not concerned or worried and I wouldn't bother CH with the feebleness of it. There is no personal attack that I find abusive or troublesome.  It's just so amusing and funny to have him / her try to tell me how to suck eggs.  I have responded and explained that I am not likely to pay much attention to his / her request that I cease and desist from posting simply because he / she wants me to.

[Madrasandy]

LC why didn't you suggest livo contact George rather than ch, he is still moderator

[littlechilie]

Good point MA, and a good suggestion also.

[livo]

It would have made no difference to me who was suggested as the moderator or even a generic use of the term.  It is not worthy of any punitive or investigative actions.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Mmm, i'm surprised not to have seen a "report to moderator" message come in after an ad hominem attack 

And the relevance of that remark to 'What is the "Bhoona" (or "Bhuna", or "Bhunao") Technique used in Indian Cooking?' is what, exactly ?  Or is it only others who are required to remain on-topic, while you may clutter up threads with " totally non related off topic drivel" with impunity ?

Since, following the departure of George as moderator, I no longer receive either feedback on, or thanks for, my use of the "Report to moderator" button, I have more-or-less given up bothering except in the most extreme of cases.  The bitch-fighting that now overshadows everything else on this forum just plays into the hands of CA and his cronies, but if that is what the majority want, then so be it.

** Phil.

[Onions]

It's beyond my "generally accepted" terms of reference as moderator to delete this thread or any thread. A few members here would be the first people to leap in and criticise me for breaking my own policy and deleting a thread.

[curryhell]

I would look upon my post, as would many, as a gentle hint to use the "report to moderator" button, which you yourself have suggested and were so fond of using regularly It is one line in a long post which is on topic unlike your deleted contribution.  If it pleases you I will moderate it.  I agree it would be great  if we kept all the drivel in one post, and here seems the ideal home.  It will cut my work down until, suddenly it ceases to be convenient  :