Enough Is Enough!!! The Ongoing Saga!!! It's Almost The 3 Year Anniversary

Last time I went on a voyager was many years ago when it was wearing the virgin livery. I don't think it was a super though.

Must have been on a really super elevated curve. I would not want to be carrying plates around on a train!

 

Now that you mention it I've got this exclusive image of the driver following the incident:

 

Yes haha it can be a real challenge tryna serve 4 course meals at 100mph

 

No discrimination! All vehicles welcome lol

 

Makes a change from a dosto.

 

Passengers glitching on the platform is still one of my favorites .. what's everybody else's favorite bug?

 

Could this thread now be end of life? I see the Rivet one got the padlock this morning, rather than just cleaning up some of the silliness that crept in over the weekend. Enjoy it while it lasts!

 

I see a twitcher the other day.

 

Is that the one with Geralt in it

 

Unfortunately I've had some of them just walk straight onto the tracks

 

Well that's a new one...

 

It could have just been cleaned up though Jan and also serves to illustrate how the lack of moderation ant weekends allowed a simple bit of thread drift regarding food to turn downright nasty.

 

My only suggestion to the weekend scenario outside of the valid points you've made, is having one or two established forum members given some small administrative powers to lock threads should they get to inappropriate or out of hand, until the full time DTG staff can review the situation on a weekday.

I'd say in the hypothetical situation the said volunteers wouldn't engage in conversations but would merely just lock a thread if it got out of hand and a then for a appropriate DTG forum staff member review the offending thread once they were back 'in office'. I think quite a few people would be against the idea but it is a thought that I've had for a while.

In terms of the other thread, although my original post using the food analogy was well intentioned and within the relevant topic, I feel responsible for the trajectory it took, so I offer my sincere apologies.

 

This. And while noting and appreciating Jan's comments ultimately if you have a 24/7 forum with a wide cross section of posters, even if 99% of them are "Captain Sensible" and respect the rules and courtesy to other forum members there's always the chance someone won't. Then someone else gets the red mist over it and before you know it the salt spreads faster than the Elite Dangerous Official Forum (where even I feared to tread).

 

The only other forum I'm on is RailUK, and I have been on there just over 16 years now, but it's become overly moderated to the extent I only lurk on there now because of how petty some of the moderating got for me personally!

 

I didn't know it had its own forum?

In other news. Nearly at 150 pages

 

While I agree the forums can be a problem on the weekends, the last thing we need is a bunch of " trusties " lording it over the rest of us. A very bad idea

Better for the forum members to act like grown ups, though I'm not sure that's possible for some. Some of the posts this past weekend were disgraceful, many just plain childish.

A Monday morning suspension or two might concentrate their minds.

 

In my experience, a timely quick word with someone from a Mod when things toe the line can save a whole load of grief before things get completely out of hand and punitive action is needed.

Tbh, I'm quite surprised there isn't a small team of trusted volunteer mods (with means to hold them to account) which can both ease the load of the community team and can watch over things 'out of hours'.

As for volunteer mods 'lording it over' anyone, well, anyone prone to that is unfit for the role and should be removed from the role if appointed in the first place.

 

I've had the same experience with RailUK - Yorkie in particular was patronising, like he's living his power fantasy of moderating RailUK. GTPlanet was also quite bad, but the toxicity applied to both the staff and the other members. It's the only forum I've ever had to leave because of the harassment I got from some members.

 

Yes, I've had the same moderator lecture me too about some really petty things... I just didn't respond or react to them in the end as the thing they were giving me a dressing down for was so stupid. I sort of had my fun on there around 2009 - 2014, but it died out with the over moderation situation. I kid you not I made a thread with a quote from a newspaper (along with a link to the said newspaper), and because I didn't post it in a particular fashion I got a dressing down and warning! That was the nail on the coffin for me, so I just lurk there now to hoover up practical information, but outside of that I don't interact all that much.

This forum seems to get the moderation input just right overall and allows for human conversation and debate.

 

Hi. Filler message. Gotta get em 150 pages.

 

(off topic but was there really much of a topic anyway?)

This video is giving me PTSD from Edinburgh to Glasgow and Fife Circle lines in tsw loll

(Wait for it. 15-30seconds in)
https://youtube.com/shorts/XRpaqpvw3X8?si=_OAeSpJCFMcdRtjT

Do you recognise the tune?

 

I'm on RailUK and have had posts deleted for petty reasons, probably because they don't fit the 'approved' style, as far as I can tell.
It's a great place for rail information, but it lacks humour and takes itself way too seriously at times.
At least round here you can lighten up a bit!

 

This thread is a perfect example of my point.

I've never felt the moderation team on here have ever over stepped the mark as far as I'm concerned.

 

Having met him in person a couple of times, he's a nice (if earnest) bloke and different to the on site persona. Definitely not living out some power fantasy, instead running a very tight ship. Although I must admit I too have been warned countless times...

Anyway we've gotta be close to 150 now?

 

Did you say to him "Hello I'm aroused by trains" and did he call the police on you

 

Lmfao XD

 

I don't think I'd get very far with this username on RailUK

Next post is 150 right?

 

Phil Mitchell Husky Voice: " 'Ello, is that you Yorkie? I've gotta tell you something... *Grunt* *Hiss* *deflate*... I get aroused by trains more then my Shirley... Now get your two tones out!"

(All in jest ofcourse)

I'll get my coat!

 

Fun fact: The truck cab is empty. The driver is in the train car, controlling the truck remotely.

 

Yes please. TSG to the stage please.

 

Ah yes. The class 150

 

Looks like a 156 to me...

 

Indeed, I've never had an issue with this forum over the years. The only time I've had a post edited was because I briefly mentioned piracy, but other than that it's been fine.

I once asked why they couldn't add a like system and I was told to use WNXX instead.

 

Go to a forum meal and they'll tell you why they say that (it's a common response).

Ultimately it's their forum and it's up to them how to run it. It's not how I would do the rules personally it but you can't argue with the results and they have to balance accessibility for some extremely highly strung and/or vulnerable people (given the hobby) as well as easy going chancers like us (as I said I've had countless warnings myself and am blocked from posting in half the forum). And no I don't have Stockholm Syndrome... just respect for the staff having met a few of them. Again, in real life, they are much more chilled than they come off in the medium of text.

I imagine a lot of the antagonism would be diluted if they changed the template warnings which start "It has come to our attention that" etc etc which almost seem designed to wind people up by overstating the perceived severity.

 

I don't know what it is like now days, but I remember originally WNXX was a contrast to the over moderation of RUK, and was quite a lawless forum!

 

Not like the good ole days but nothing ever is

I miss the internet of c. 2002ish. Just before the normies started to take over with their constant taking offence at anything and everything.

And now we even have bloody laws about what you can do ffs. If this was 2002 and I was a time traveller, I could put lemonparty.jpeg here to demo what we'll no longer be able to do in the future. No doubt it'd be deleted eventually once a mod saw it, but it'd be seen as jolly japes cause we all understand each other on the internet and don't have to worry about people blowing a nut. Now I can only weep.

 

I mainly lurk there nowadays as I don't feel welcome to express myself in my own way.
How ironic that a load of trainspotters can't create an inclusive atmosphere!

 

*Sarcasm*

 

The superior class 150
(Photo is from the Fandom TSW Wiki)

 

I've just been and checked this evening before going down the coast. It's defo a 150, just one of those fancy pants ones that has a six instead of a zero!

 

We really need a laughing icon to accompany the Like button!

Technically they do have the same engine and drive train underneath.