The following is a whisper from Hydrahead:

"Dethklok fucking rules!!!
Oh and I think the stupid British pig should go choke on some bangers and mash and fucking die. DIE YOU BASTARD DIE!!!"

I agree that certain things are best ignored, and that this individual is probably some kid but there are surely limits to what we as a group tolerate.

As I said earlier this will happen more and more; we need moderators. Offensive arguments are one thing but this is certainly beyond what I will put up with.

Has anyone got any way of contacting Alex?

Hydrahead has been acting strangely lately. I don't know why but I received a very odd PM from him the other day too. It wasn't abusive like the post above but it was non-sensical.

Alex has been AWOL for sometime now...has anyone tried sending him an email to his personal address listed on his profile?

I'm glad to see a few members have voiced their support for me becoming a Mod. I think its important to protect this forum from trolls & abusive posters. If we could track down Alex we could sort it out...I wonder if hes on holiday or something.

It might be an idea to use this thread to store any personal attacks for referance? My point is that it has gone over the line when you get whispers - a whisper amounts to a personal email and in actual fact the above message would be illegal if sent in the UK.

I can understand the desire to act like adults but we have to wake up to the fact that there are people out there that are weird, dysfuntional etc and we have absolutely no defence beyond ignoring it at the moment. What if this kid decides to use this forum to post offensive images or whatever here, just to cause aggravation. Having no mechanism to deal with this is like leaving your front door unlocked at night because you think everyone should act nice!

This will continue to get in the way of us enjoying our hobby unless we act, I second Snuffy's suggestions for those moderators.

@ Snuffster: Thats a good idea mate, keep a record of any more abuse. When Alex finally returns it will be a useful source of info. From my own experience Alex deals with these situations quickly and fairly so when he does return he'll sort it out.

@ Snuffy: LOL

Hey Snuffy, let things develop here and then we'll run the election campaign on another thread. We don't know his position yet, and he is certainly a very busy man at the moment

This is something I've discussed with snuffster & merdock69 before.

I think we need a policy new members have to read before they join like a 'code of conduct' user agreement would be great, and possibly keep the policy a sticky at the top of page or somewhere easily seen. And maybe something all current members have to agree to before they can continue using the forum. You can no longer use the excuse "this is a public forum & a free country, I can say what I want". That way they are held responsible if they are abusive or rude & are in violation of the forums policy & let it be known in the agreement that they can get booted without question if they violate this agreement. But it has to be a clear violation that was witnessed by other members before they get booted. We don't need people making claims of abuse to get someone booted just because they may not like someone. Every offender should be warned on the first offense & given 1 final chance to obey the policy because a slip of the tongue/keyboard does happen. If they screw up again, they need to be banned. But this raises another problem, If someone is banned, who's to say they just won't create another account under a different name if they are determined to be an ass.

I don't know all the technical details but it's possible to ban an IP address. They could still create another account but it'd likely have to be from a different location. So at least they'd still suffer some inconvenience.

Matt, that won't work for the determined. There are many free programs for anonymous web surfing, proxy servers etc. that you can either hide your ip address or bounce around to different ones from right there in your home.

Like this site Dark Proxy. Its free & all you do is type in the url of where you want to go & presto. Lets you in to any site your blocked from.

"Maybe..... Hydrahead IS Alex!"

WHAT A TWIST!!

Good point Troutstroker and lskllr.

No way to keep them out unless you dump a lot of money into the site & running cross reference checks against your drivers license & or other identification numbers.

I vote for Lazarus or Bob. Both have always been very respectful and helpful as far as I know. I am back on the snuff and am enjoying it now more then ever. I hope there are no hard feelings and that I am welcomed back with open arms. But if not then I thank Troutstroker for the info regarding Dark Proxy. OH HELL YA.

That was hilarious, nightcap. That would be my reaction, dead on.
~Snuffy

Oh!...........But keep quiet, the idiots will read the above...Don't give them ammunition.

I for one accept that apology, and you have my sympathy for whatever is causing you pain. Welcome back.