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troll: trolls feed off the reactions of their victims because "their agenda is to take delight in causing trouble"

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Edited by user Wednesday, 12 December 2012 8:28:13 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

cheers I'll make use of that.

More political correctness im sure that will go down well...

dredgey's account has now been suspended from using the forums for a week due to his inflammatory posts and PM's! Everyone deserves a 2nd chance so not barred him permanently.

yep we'll probably just have to copy paste all of our posts from now on.
guess all we will see a is posts about some coins amybe the odd nugget and then a heap of replies all saying "wow great find" for fear of upsetting anyone.
god forbid anyone who starts a debate might only be 2 or 3 dogooder members left to post anything.

Seems the junk finds topic stirred up a few on both sides and some of the main contributers to the junky stuff have their own blogs was woundering why you need to post them here also? as i guess most of the people that like that sorta stuff probably follow your blogs and can veiw it there instead

Good one Gavin. Its not about being pc Simon. I have been thinking about the website for while now, and I have for over a year enjoyed reading all the gold and other treasures posts. And I have met quite a few members in person. For me I was thinking about the people who could be reading this site, maybe families, kids (my teenages read the posts) , people thinking about joining, spouses of members, overseas treasure hunters. For me its about what you would post that you would be proud to show your kids, your wife. And this site whether we like it or not is a kind of advertisement for NZ and our way of life, and our of sense of adventure and love of outdoors and our openness and our friendly nature. Why should there be any tolerance for inflamatory nonsense that a few people have been posting. As soon as anyone mentions the phrase "its all getting a bit pc" is that just another way of saying "one should be able to slang off at others, belittle their hobby and wind them up with insults and they should "man up" and handle it", (not that you do any of these things Simon.) Having high standards, in my opinion, will only improve this site and encourage members, but it will give current members full confidence to post their experiences without wondering if a troll is going to mock, insult, ridicule them. Cheer Tony.

My 2 cents: when the interwebs came along in the 90’s I found that there were forums (like this one) about outdoors activities I was interested in. It was quite a revelation in that you could post back and forth opinions about gear, places to go etc. Not only were these forums fun, they were very educational. People would share a lifetimes experience and you could sift through it and pick up a great deal of good information. They all seemed to last a year or two and would then deteriorate into a miserable pissfest and suddenly everyone would be gone. It seems most people have no interest in anonymous fights over nothing. I just checked and some of the forums I used to participate in are still operational. Only now instead of hundreds of posts a day they look to be getting a couple a month. It seems that once a forum goes down the path of anything goes they never recover, even well over ten years later. So for this reason I strongly support any many rules and as strict enforcement as is necessary to keep this forum civil because I like it and don’t want to see it die. If someone believes everyone else should have a thick skin and that they should be free to express themselves any way you see fit, that’s great, but there are plenty of other places for that so there is no need for it here.