Earnie the Eagle said:
Having a bulldog supporter here atm is just like putting bull in a china shop, he may well a nice person but he/she isn't helping, most of us are ropable, disappointed etc and some see the bulldogs as the instigators, I am not saying they are, but please whoever approves new members here perhaps one of the questions you should ask is do you support Manly and keep Silvertails for only Manly fans.
I realise this is most likely aimed at me, but that's rubbish.
For the record by the way, I already liase with Dan on here, and he is well aware I'm a Bulldogs supporter.
The question I pose though is, why does it care who you support, as long as you participate with a level head, don't troll, and abide by the rules.
We have some of your members over at The Kennel, are they banned over there because they support Manly... Nope, not at all.
Some of the posters (Manly supporters) on here are taking to racist remarks without Bulldogs supporters being invvolved in those threads. Comments like Des Halal and Noel Khalil are just childish and really only show the immaturity in the poster. If anything, and a person cannot post on a discussion forum without resorting to childish name calling, then regardless of who they support, a forum probably isn't the best place for them.
On another thing, when the Dogs went through the Kevin Moore and the board scandals, we also had some rather silly posters who went off the rails getting angry and anyone and anything.
The bottom line is this. At the end of the day we are all supporters of a game we love. Regardless of who we choose to support, locking out users who *may* support other sides is never a good thing. It stifles healthy discussion, and input. Just look at Jubliee (Dragons Forums) to see what I'm talking about.
If people are going to post like idiots, they'll do so regardless of who other people support on here. Heck I could create a second user account called .. i don't know "ManlyMan2012" or whatever and proclaim to be a Manly fan, and you wouldn't know any different.
Final note is that EVERY supporter base forum has "those people" on there forums that annoy / abuse others, it's just the nature of forums really.
Good to see the mods are taking note of things though.