Personal Attacks And Abusive Language Will Not Be Tolerated

[AB Editor]

"We understand that debates get heated, but personal attacks and abusive language will not be tolerated"

Can we all calm down a bit please?

I've been written to several times about how abrasive and aggressive this section has become.

Several have pointed out that the language in particular has become childish and brutish, with name calling and hyperbole being especially annoying.

So let's calm down a bit. Let's stop calling people "traitors to britain" and "friends of jihad" or similarly rude things.

If you can't make your opinion felt without resorting to these personal attacks, then you'll likely be met with suspension, or banning.

All the best,

Ed

[Lie-in King]

Very welcome sticky, Ed.

Ah - "Turkish (bath?)" is supposed to rhyme with "laugh"?

It doesn't. Utterly ridiculous nonsense.

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Ed. I hope your message gets through. AB has been a bit of a bear garden for a while.

[Jackdaw33]

It does if you're cockney, pronounced Barf.

[naomi24]

Lie-in King, if you're Cockney it rhymes. Barf .... larf. ;o)

[Zacs-Master]

Does this mean TTT's avatar won't be happening anytime soon?

[Jackdaw33]

Anyway, it's time I went down the frog to the rub, have a few britneys and pick up a ruby on the way home.

[douglas9401]

I thought larf was giraffe. See how confusing it becomes?

I'll stick with delight I think.

[naomi24]

Douglas, //I thought larf was giraffe//

It's that too. Girarrf.

[ToraToraTora]

steady JD, ummm will get her Alans in a brahms

[Jackdaw33]

LOL!

[stuey]

This Referendum issue is sort of like a math/maths class: It has created quite a division amongst you, and the gap is multiplying daily with the addition of acrimonious remarks which is really subtracting from the quality of the site.

[Old_Geezer]

Ok but this thread is about a fortnight (or more - I've not checked) late.

[Jackdaw33]

...and I calculate it could become exponential.

[Lie-in King]

Jackdaw & Naomi @ 16:28 - petty semantics & you both know it - those "rhymes" & abbreviations are pathetic, *especially* when used in what should be a serious debate in News.

By all means, for those that mistakenly think it's big &/or clever, have a vain attempt at being humorous in CB or Jokes, but keep the nonsense away from News - which, by the way, is where this thread is.

[Jackdaw33]

Well, that's us told!

[stuey]

You have the right angle on some of TTT's abbreviations: Some of them are acutely obtuse.

[Mamyalynne]

Stuey

//with the addition of acrimonious remarks which is really subtracting from the quality of the site.//

You said it, more than subtracting from the quality I fear at this rate the site is heading speedily to the basement in the estimation of many.

[Jackdaw33]

Oh, dear.

[ummmm]

Very well said LIK.

[Bertrum]

I felt that some of those threads belong in Jokes