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scoocs · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject:

Dont worry sprouty's not banned he just not a mod anymore.
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the_shadow · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject:

where is sprouty anyway? he was here before, if he leaves then the outcry cannot end!
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Grix Thraves · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject:

I hope the mods lock all the threads except one. I want one big war thread! Twisted Evil

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glitch · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject:

Mystic Runner · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject:

The thing is, it hasn't been explained in detail. That brief PM was all he had, and was demodded before he even had a chance to reply.

I know it's been said over and over, but all Sprouty did was quote someone saying "fair play." I'm don't exactly know anything about the person it was directed at, but...

StarCaliber · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:01 pm Post subject:

I'm not really pleased about not being briefed by an Admin about what happened. As far as I know, none of us were.

We were pretty much left to try and bring order to the forum without knowing more than anyone else did. Hardly helpful when there's topics popping up everywhere asking what is going on. Then there's the stupid sh*t that came from the fingers of some members who really couldn't care less what they were doing.

Deleting SillySprout's topic probably was the cause of all this. If it had remained there'd have been far less topics, an explanation for members to digest and a place to reason for information. Instead we were all left in the dark.

The same sort of thing happened when mhtl was banned IIRC. Now it's happened again, no-one appears to have learnt any lessons.

monomaniacpat · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject:

All this over a conversational cliché? Christ on a bike... Rolling Eyes

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Gorrable · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject:

I have no idea what is going on, so I'm going to stay quiet on this one. If someone could PM me the details, I'd be much obliged... I've kinda been away for a couple of weeks (seems you lot can't get by without me... Wink

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Atreyu · Experienced Member Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 1396

I've come to this late and I'm very surprised to see that this has happened. Yikes!

I saw the offending thread by accident this morning - around 8am today we had a new user with an interesting name on the boards. He had a post count of 2, so out of curiosity I checked his previous post. It was (I think) in the Driv3r thead, where he'd written simply "X is a liar."

Sprouty had quoted that post and applied the comment "fair play."

There's a very big defamation problem there. Without qualification, the statement "X is a liar" will clearly tend to lessen people's opinion of X. Especially if X works in the games industry, then a comment like that in a forum devoted to discussing games will magnify the problem.

Now, under the law, very many people involved in the publication of a defamatory statement can get into trouble. If X was defamed, then Future could be classed as a publisher of that statement. There's especially a problem if one of Future's 'watchdogs' - ie, the moderator team - is seen to be endorsing what may be a defamatory statement.

So, in return for Sprouty materially increasing the risk the X could successfully sue Future - an easier target than one of the forum's (relatively anonymous) users - I guess that Future has figured that it has to take action against him, and to be seen to take action.

Sad to say, if I were one of Future's lawyers I'd advise them to do exactly what they've done.

But I'm very, very sorry to see Sprouty be de-modded. He was one of the greats.

edit: typo
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Xenophobe · Experienced Member Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 1846

Nice to hear from a professional Atreyu, if only it would shut up the idiots.
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gafgalash · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:12 pm Post subject:

Atreyu · Experienced Member Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 1396

As a user of the forum, part of me wishes you were right, Herr G. But there's no 'it's just a forum where geeks hang out' defence available under the law, I'm afraid.

Your reputation can be trashed here on the forum just as effectively as in a newspaper, or by a group e-mail, or by a statement made from the stage in a big conference hall. And you would be entitled to protect that reputation irrespective of where the defamation occurred. Which is as it should be, no?
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DIN0 · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:19 pm Post subject:

hope he comes back soon.
i love sprouts.
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Thanatos · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:32 pm Post subject:

glitch · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject: