http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22574 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 18:06:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22574#post-61131 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:07:44 +0000 Zadok the second 61131@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I personally would not welcome a £10 fee for the privilege of posting my drivel, it feels a bit like not paying MPs a decent salary - a good idea at the time, until you realise the only people who bother to contribute are those with spare cash.</p> <p>But we could charge a pound per anonymous tag? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22574#post-61124 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:15:52 +0000 simonjmr 61124@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Newsbiscuit biometric id cards? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22574#post-61120 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:02:26 +0000 Golgo13 61120@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Insulting tags somehow come across as more sinister than insulting comments. You're never sure when they were added, if it was one "person" or a group, and it is rare for someone to come to your aid over a nasty tag, whereas if there is a nasty comment, usually someone more reasonable will pull them up on it - and then you know that it isn't the whole site against you. </p> <p>Funny tags are nice, and allow someone with a brief witticism to add it without bumping the thread...</p> <p>One thing they are never actually used for is as tags. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22574#post-61060 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:23:28 +0000 Gerontius 61060@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I would go a stage further. How about a £10.00 registration fee...to help with the running of the site, maintenance etc<br /> It would stop people signing in under multiple names, sadly that is where many of the problems lie these days. Surely anybody not happy to pay £10.00 for the privelege of posting on NB wouldn't be worth having anyway.<br /> People are perfectly happy to walk into Starbucks and hand over good money, so why not here? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22574#post-61055 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:16:29 +0000 Oxbridge 61055@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm with Ironduke. There are levels of openness, stretching all the way from full identity complete with name and address to total anonymity as per the tags. </p> <p>The tag comments, while occasionally witty, are also being used in a spiteful and cowardly way that has to my certain knowledge driven some contributors away from NB. And, because they are by definition short, they hardly permit any nuanced analysis. </p> <p>Yes, it's not the only way to call someone a cnut and it's safe enough to do so openly in most cases but they enable it to happen in a cruder way that permits no real come back, while serving no proper purpose. Away with them I say. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22574#post-61046 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:30:30 +0000 be reasonable 61046@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Trouble is, duke, it's all anonymous, so people will still hurl abuse around without any real comeback. Someone might call you a cnut, but your response options are limited. He's not going to give you his address so you can go and punch him on the nose, so you're limited to responding in kind, which gets tedious very quickly. A moderator would be more effective. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22574#post-61020 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:53:20 +0000 rikkor 61020@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ironduke, if I felt you were a Cnut, I would tell it (type it) to your face. Better to concentrate on why humo(u)r about suffering people is OK. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22574#post-61016 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:34:58 +0000 Ironduke 61016@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've been called a cunt via tag, a number of other have too. Now there are insulting tags pertaining to the Tsunami.</p> <p>I cannot see any good reason to persist with anonymous tagging and I strongly suggest this site ends it now. </p>