A bit of a poll / open discussion...

[Burney]

Eh, I thought you were Irish these days.

I hear you've all been being racist to some fat black lass? The poor Guardian's very confused. Irish people being racist does not compute for your average British lefty.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...witter-ireland

[Sir C]

I hear you've all been being racist to some fat black lass? The poor Guardian's very confused. Irish people being racist does not compute for your average British lefty.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...witter-ireland

The real mind fúck for them must be that she is British, and therefore deserving of a damned good racist kicking...

[Burney]

The real mind fúck for them must be that she is British, and therefore deserving of a damned good racist kicking...

Yes. While one can only abhor some of the things that have been said to the poor girl, it's always rather satisfying to see a bit of tokenistic, identity politics bull**** blow up in the faces of the perpetrators.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

Tree view.

Clamping down on gratuitous insults of other posters.

Stopping the hijacking of threads. Even this one has been hijacked. some people only want to talk about themselves not about Arsenal. You need more hands-on moderation to delete irrelevant posts.

Invite existing members to post and do a bit of PR on Facebook or Twitter or wherever and when new members join (or old members come up with yet another character) treat them with a modicum of politeness.

[Sir C]

Tree view.

Clamping down on gratuitous insults of other posters.

Stopping the hijacking of threads. Even this one has been hijacked. some people only want to talk about themselves not about Arsenal. You need more hands-on moderation to delete irrelevant posts.

Invite existing members to post and do a bit of PR on Facebook or Twitter or wherever and when new members join (or old members come up with yet another character) treat them with a modicum of politeness.

Isn't 'thread hijacking' just another term for 'conversation'?

[Mo Britain less Europe]

Isn't 'thread hijacking' just another term for 'conversation'?

Not when someone asks "do you know what time the game is on" and you get a reply "the other day I had a rather wonderful Chateauneuf-du-Pape".

[Sir C]

Not when someone asks "do you know what time the game is on" and you get a reply "the other day I had a rather wonderful Chateauneuf-du-Pape".

I'm very much a Claret man, myself.

[Burney]

Not when someone asks "do you know what time the game is on" and you get a reply "the other day I had a rather wonderful Chateauneuf-du-Pape".

How is that hijacking? It doesn't stop you talking about everything you want to talk about while allowing others to discuss something quite different if they so desire. If enough people care about what both people are talking about, two or more conversations can happily co-exist within one thread. You seem to see such tangents as being somehow intrusive, while your apparent desire to maintain one-track conversations comes across as oddly exclusive.

[Fast Eddie]

Not when someone asks "do you know what time the game is on" and you get a reply "the other day I had a rather wonderful Chateauneuf-du-Pape".

Bang on.

This was actually a very useful tactic deployed by the clique to stifle debate and criticisms of Arsene FC. Threads would be spammed and trolled to death so it was job-done for the Wengerite hijackers.

And as you rightly said, already this thread has been hijacked. I mentioned that racism/race-bating was out of hand on this forum then within minutes we had trolls hijacking and going off-topic with irrelevant racism on twitter, which was actually an own goal by the Empire Brits as the sympathy and condemnation came from Irish twitter users and the tweets that the link had on the page were by users from America and beyond

All this actually means is that to improve the forum to be better civilised and more accommodating means certain people would have to look at their own oafish behaviour hence their hijacking.