These days kindness is seen as a weakness. Where do the children learn that?

What could help in your case?

A permanent ban, maybe? You constantly failed to redeem yourself despite numerous attempts of reconciliation with most EF members.

Does it ?


Or does it show Parkadam just wound us up really nicely and we all fell for it ?

Wait... are you saying that someone winding us up about beating their children, when they are long-term members and do actually have children, isn't disturbing just because it's a wind-up? If I 'wind you up' about something traumatic in a serious and believable manner for multiple posts until the point everyone believes me isn't disturbing because... it's a wind-up?

Not sure I quite get your logic.

In all honesty I think they were looking at getting a reaction.



Sounds a bit like Parkadam is well bored with live and decided to have a piss-take

If so, very bad choice. I´d rather say trolling as some things I think you do not joke about. But then, hey, next time he will be reported to the police and maybe we will hear how much fun that was.

Now we know that direct action by members is necessary, that's exactly what will happen.

Good to have it clarified.

I bet he's a barrel of laughs at airport security, too. Joshing that he's armed to the teeth and sporting the latest fashion in suicide vests as he skips through the scanner.

Yeh but if only 3 people report him for that then no action will be taken. They need at least 500 people to report him before airport security would give a crap

No. And especially if, when asked, he says that it was "just talk". From then on, the threatening things he declared are nullified, they are just a joke, and anyone who doesn't find it funny misses the point of his humour, and and those who aren't smart enough to see that there really is no cause for alarm are just... snowflakes.

To clarify: the above is written in bitter sarcasm. That is, sadly, what seems to be happening here, though.

The English Forum has many, many good sides. There is a great deal of good going on in the threads, and also behind the scenes as people rally to help others, and that's why I'm here and grateful for the existance of this forum. But the handling of this matter, which includes the potential need to protect a 3-year-old, is a dark, low point in the Forum.

I think this forum has always had some issues that I personally was aware of and didn't like, but most of the time I ended up being amused or just ignoring or forgetting about them. You are right, the (part of, at least) EF community can be real sweet too. I got to appreciate and like quite a lot of people who are part of this online community. I think that's why I stayed here so long.
Unfortunately I've (kind of) lost my patience and my tolerance for all these "games". I don't know why some people write all sorts of stuff. It's probably the perceived lack of accountability at fault, or for them EF is just a place to vent/provoke and find it safe to do so. Would they have these conversations in real life, apart from their circle of friends and in a private environment, and maybe not even then? I don't think that many would do...or maybe that is a wishful thinking.. At the end of the day, it's probably better to stay away from this stuff. It just became too much to digest/process/accept/find anything useful or amusing about it.

Airport security is real, internet forums are not.

Just saying.

Tom

P.S. I, on the other hand, never write anything here that is not factual, or that I would not say to someone's face. Also just saying.

P.P.S. Except for posting memes, memes may or may not ne factual. FFS, they are MEMES!

Can we please just clarify that statement to:

"I, on the other hand, never write anything here that I BELIEVE is not factual,"

You are one of those people who talk the most untrue, delude and/or exaggerated BS on the entire forum and the most hilarious thing is how seriously you take yourself. You're an unwitting comedy act since years now.

It's pure provocation just to get a reaction !


As with most things, the bigger the shit, the more paper required