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Post by Admin on Aug 20, 2003 17:18:28 GMT
I've just discovered why the moderator over at the C4 forum paid no attention to us, ever: community.channel4.com/6/ubb.x?a=srch&s=162603557&u=884609267JESUS H CHRIST! Is Italian football really THAT interesting? Wow. Embarrassing fetish, methinks. And also, I looked at a few of his posts, most of which contained website addresses. Yet: ___________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The President wishes to make the following remarks: Channel 4, you suck BIG time. You've just deleted an entire thread for your own selfish reasons. Had it said 'we hate gays' or 'the military should be all white', then fair enough. But did it? No. You said as a general rule website addresses are not allowed to be posted, yet, browsing through other threads I've seen at least THREE addresses for other sites, all posted weeks, no, months ago. Yet when I post an address you delete not only it, but the entire thread within a number of hours. THAT is why you suck. ___________________________________________ |
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Post by Admin on Aug 20, 2003 17:23:39 GMT
I'm thinking I should write to them. Discrimination. Against you and I. The Third Watch threads contain URLs to outside sites and have never been deleted. They've Royally pissed me off this time. You don't delete somone elses entire thread. It wasn't even a properly formatted URL, it was coded in bold letters and a paragraph of text.
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Post by Laura Lyman on Aug 20, 2003 17:57:55 GMT
It's a conspiracy Everyone at Channel 4 sucks. They should be punished for the poor treatment the west wing receives in their hands. I'm sure the likes of Josiah Bartlet would have a few words to say to them.
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Post by mervale on Aug 20, 2003 22:38:17 GMT
.................The Third Watch threads contain URLs to outside sites and have never been deleted. .................. um not trying to start any more ww / tw rifts, but please dont feel victimised, they have deleted all ours too. when i had that link in my signature, they pretty much deleted it every day and i was just puting it back in mainly to piss them off. out of hundreds of threads that have been edited and/ or deleted there is one third watch one still up with a link. but i think thats a fluke more than anything else. also all those threads that used to piss you all off in the drama forum as they had the same title etc were there due to them moving them. every day one of us would start a new thread in the "ask four" forum with a question to the ed asking why they were ignoring us and not answering our questions, and every day the thread would be deleted or moved to the drama forum! if it makes you feel any better the page that we have a link to (until they find it and delete it again) has a link here and a very nice review of your site! they are particularly after me now, as some bastard reported me saying i was posting external links disguised as third watch which were actually porn  .....have to admit that is quite funny though! |
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2003 11:41:46 GMT
"we have a link to (until they find it and delete it again) has a link here and a very nice review of your site!"  I've not seen it but I'll look for it. When I said that they hadn't deleted your urls I didn't mean it in a spiteful way. I was just showing that urls exist within threads and have been there for a while. Proper, clickable urls. But when I wrote this: " west underneath the mango tree wing my honey and me forum underneath co the mango tree uk the addy in bold, yes siree. " it was deleted within hours, along with the entire thread of previous replies. And that's not even a clickable url, you just need to use common sense to work it out. My point is, they seem to be actively hunting down my posts and deleting them. My mention of urls in Third Watch threads was for example, because C4 said they didn't allow any website addresses as a rule. A rule which, well, applies to me only it may seem. The C4 Ed posts many urls linked to sites beyond the forums. It's double standards and, I guess, a bit petty, too. For me, it's the principle of the matter. There are people using the Drama forum and have no idea where everyone has gone. I'm just trying to tell them. Anyway, I think we should just annoy them....  like so, and I would expect my membership to be revoked sometime soon for that. |
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Post by spike on Aug 21, 2003 12:51:51 GMT
Well done, Mr. President.
When in doubt, wind the bastards up!
If they do delete those threads and ban you, I'll be glad to take over in your place.
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Post by mervale on Aug 21, 2003 13:25:47 GMT
haha that is genious!  you are right it is best to have different people posting them as they are after me with the links now, have no idea why they have left that one thread. anyway here is our link....... NON TW LINKS West Wing UK Forum Visit our fellow C4 exiles at the West Wing Forum. Amazing looking forum, with extensive content on characters, episodes and actors of WW. ( www.geocities.com/savethirdwatchuk/links.htm ) if you would rather it said or included something else let me know. |
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Post by Flamingo on Aug 21, 2003 15:20:30 GMT
Well its still there so we r doing ok. Here is some information that may help with the battle against them. Its some of their terms and conditions:
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I got bored with the rest of them, a lot of it was repitition
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Post by spike on Aug 21, 2003 16:10:32 GMT
They appear to have noticed what you did, sir. The threads have disappeared.
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Post by Laura Lyman on Aug 21, 2003 16:29:43 GMT
if they ban you we should each take a turn of posting such threads on the website and see how they like that.
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Post by mervale on Aug 21, 2003 20:49:05 GMT
well i dont entirely understand the whole part in the terms and conditions, but i always noticed the bit that said ....."external links are nothing to do with us"......or whatever. i took that to mean you could put in external links. the thing that annoyed me the most was that they just removed your posts/ threads without any explanation. they never once said you are not supposed to be doing this so i decided to just keep doing it. i even once put a post in the reach four questions bit saying you are deleting all my posts, i dont know why, is it because you are not supposed to post links. if you tell me not to i will stop. and the cheeky buggers just deleted it! so i say infiltrate and piss them off with as many links as everyone wants. infact lets just all post some random links too while we are at it.......maybe to the bbc or something that will wind them up entirely.  |
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2003 21:50:48 GMT
Better than that, we should post topics about non-C4 shows. Eastenders, Corrie.... go as low as Points of View. I think that'll piss em off.
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2003 21:59:14 GMT
Okay, I was so inspired by my Points of View idea, I went to C4 and typed it up, clicked, and got this: "Thank you for contributing to this forum. The administrators of this site have removed your ability to post directly to this forum. As a result, your message has been placed in a message queue. If the moderators approve your post, then it will appear in the forum." Could somebody please post the following for me: _______________________________ TITLE: Points of View MSG: Did anyone catch Points of View last Sunday? I thought Terry Wogan lacked a certain something. Maybe he's tired, working five days a week with Gaby Roslin and all that, yeah, he's tired. I loved the show when Tezza spoke in leaps and bounds, his voice full of excitement. Now, well, he drones. Bit like Graham Norton when they stretched his brilliant Friday night show over the space of five days. Made him weak, yeah man, weak. Chillin' out, guys, catcha l8r ____________________________ My thanks to whomever will jeopardise there account on the Drama Bore-um.  |
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Post by mervale on Aug 21, 2003 23:01:00 GMT
oh they are making me really mad now! not only did they remove your cool hidden message, but also your "you suck" post in the first thread and our last third watch thread with the one remaining link   (the one that is there now seems to be a random one from ages ago mainly dominated by pj etc that somebody has bumped up. so i am now also declaring war on them, and my first act will be to post the pov message! |
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Post by mervale on Aug 21, 2003 23:05:40 GMT
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.....have to admit that is quite funny though!
I've not seen it but I'll look for it. When I said that they hadn't deleted your urls I didn't mean it in a spiteful way. I was just showing that urls exist within threads and have been there for a while. Proper, clickable urls. But when I wrote this:
