I'll always remember how good she was.
She's my favourite ever lady
Funny I was watching her dances only yesterday.
L&B's Quickstep/Dancing in the Dark lifts my spiritsevery single time.
I've always loved the tall ones.
Maybe this is why I can't get with the Chelsee love.
She is such a cutie, but on the dancefloor I love to see the longer limbs. Not her fault is it, and nothing to apologise for.
Holly was the one I liked watching best this year.
(but Robbie was my favourite overall. He's funonlegs

So, don't mind who wins.
Three deserving contestants.

I never had anything against Lisa (I loved her VW) it was the dance off that caused the issues there, without the bloomin dance off series 5 6 & 7 could have been so different, not perhaps in the results but in the tone

Nothing exceeds the animosity shown towards other posters on here, when some have a contrary view to theirs.

I have noticed a lot of $h!t stiring but no more than there usually is at the end of the series.

This is what I have noticed and find irritating......

SCDFan100: I loved Bob's tango. It was definitley a perfect 40!

CittyCat: It was hideous, what were War Drobe thinking dressing him in an orange jumpsuit?

SCDFan100: I know, it clashed a bit with his purple dreadlocks but I still think his dance was amazing!

cupofteaplz: I do like Bob but he was overmarked. I saw at least 3 mistakes. He slipped at the end of his handstand and fell on his arse, yet every single judge gave him a 10!

trollolol: Bob is a smug, arrogant teacher's pet. Hope he trips next week and falls flat on his botoxed face!

You shouldn't feel you have to go. You are entitled to your say. I do not feel that you are being personal or offensive

You are not coming over as superior in my opinion. I think you are just trying to state your position and being misunderstood, perhaps. I would be sorry if posters felt they had to leave because they had the bravery or audacity (how very dare you ) to say something they strongly felt. Your posts seem intelligent and well-expressed; why should you leave?

Perhaps it's a misunderstanding of style. I've been misunderstood before.

I could never understand why so many get worked up about posts on a message board like this. The forum is about an entertainment programme on a TV channel.
There's no need for personal animosity over a difference in opinion. If someone has a different opinion from me on anything on the programme I don't mind and it's sad when adverse comments can cause.... well there's no other word for it..."flouncing."

But just let 'em quote my post and tell me they are right and I'm wrong! Do you hear!

Some might put a smiley here, but I can never be assed.

... you is rong.

*

*@rsed.

... ahahahahahahahahaha

Thanks for that winenroses ( what a lovely user name).
I dont actually feel I have to leave, and I would not if I didnt want to but once the comp is over I fear there will be very little to hold my interest, I can only see the comments becoming much worse once the dancing has finished.

Thanks for understanding that I was in essence trying to get my point across regarding what I felt about the nature of the debate on here, and I do think I was within topic, and I was expressing a particular answer to a specific poster who had asked a question repeatedly with little response. My point was that knowing particular posters styles and their loves and hates ( not meant as a slur ) I would not dream of entering into discussion with that poster when there is such a huge difference of opinion which would make any debate pointless.
I guess you get what I meant, thanks for that, I do think that sometimes people protest a little too much when faced with a truth that is unpalatable, thats unfortunate but common I find.

So, because people disagree with the judges, dislike is heaped on the female contestant the judges happen to think is good? Yes, that is indeed what happens.

Of course, if the judges happen to like a forum favourite (Alesha, for example, or Chelsee), then people who don't rate the contestant so highly are ridiculed for thinking they know better than the judges.

And in there somewhere is the bogus theory that the marking should be about errors, so that high marks for a dance that contained errors must be wrong.

I'm sorry, but I don't see how that's supposed to work. How is my number of posts supposed to make it seem strange that I find this forum unpleasant?

And I haven't said (or, I think, even implied) that there is a pleasant DS forum, so how did that get in there?


Well, I regularly visit the Big Brother forum, so how's that supposed to work? Shouldn't it mean I'm used to worse than this forum?


I think there's plenty of real animosity and that a lot of genuine animosity and nastiness is passed off as mere piss-taking and banter. That it could be heard at work or down the pub is neither here nor there.

So those who don't agree with the dominant view in a thread should do ... what, exactly? Keep quiet? Don't post what they actually think but instead some much milder version that's more in tune with the mood? Start a new thread?

Well I worked with a woman once who was a fanatical Cliff Richard fan () but the most I would say is well I'm not so keen myself because it seemed rude or impolite to do otherwise. I feel the same on here but because of the anonymity normal modes of behaviour don't seem to apply. I'm not talking about critiquing the dancing but the more personal stuff.

I think we appear to be posting at cross purposes. You appear to be saying that you enjoy visiting DS, warts and all.
That practically all the forums contain nasty and vindictive posts, and some are worse than this.
In that case, I understand. I don't agree with you about this particular forum, it's a haven of peace compared with some of the others. But I can see where you're coming from.

Seems to be a lot of that botox and skin stretching about It makes women look like they're wearing a mask unfortunately just like tattoos can't be taken off. There is very little animosity on this forum.

You have taken my post in isolation Veri. My post says "Thinking about it a bit more" because I have posted previously on this thread. As I have already said I don't care what opinion someone holds, but I do care about the tone in which it is expressed.

I'm asking that posters treat other posters with some level of respect - as per the rules of DS. The mods don't appear to get involved unless enough posters press the Alert button. Most people don't come on here for an argument, so who wants to keep pressing the Alert button? And I wonder how many posters just leave a thread when it turns 'nasty'? Or leave DS altogether?

Reading the Acceptable Use section of the DS rules makes me realise that the rules are blatantly ignored day in day and yet they seem perfectly reasonable to me.

In case anyone hasn't looked at the rules recently or ever, this is the part I'm talking about -

Acceptable Use

Respect other forum members
While you are of course welcome to disagree with other members, we will not tolerate posts which insult, belittle, bait or otherwise antagonise forum members. This includes posts which disrespectfully label others posters as 'fanboys', 'haters' or similar.

'You're a complete idiot: that's not the case at all' is not acceptable; a simple, 'I don't agree' would suffice.

Offensive material
You must not post messages that are vulgar, crude, sexist, racist, homophobic or otherwise offensive. We will not tolerate offensive, immature or unconstructive postings.

'[BB Housemate X] is an ugly slut', and '[Random Politician Y] is a prick' are not acceptable. '[BB Housemate Z] is irritating me. Why do they have to shriek so often?' is fine.

Our aim is to make each of our members feel welcome. Racism, homophobia and sexism have no place on our forums and will be dealt with swiftly.

Swearing
The Digital Spy forums do have a language filter which should block terms deemed too offensive for use on the forums. Deliberately evading this language filter in order to post offensive language will likely result in a ban as you've demonstrated a complete disregard for the forum rules. This includes but is not limited to masking letters with an asterisk, reversing letter order or substituting numbers for letters.

Casual swearing (where the words are NOT filtered) will not be punished but your post must satisfy the other terms and conditions meaning it needs to be a constructive, non-offensive post. Swearing at people or groups is not permitted.

'May have had a little too much to drink last night. I feel like shit!' would be fine. Posts such as 'You're a w*nker, I hate you!' and 'That makes no sense, piss off!' are not.

Baiting
Don't wind people up to try to get them to say something in violation of the Terms and Conditions. It's obvious to other users and to us, doesn't work (we evaluate other posts and wider context when dealing with alerts), and backfires.

How many times do we read posts that break one or more of these rules? Is it any wonder some of us are not happy with the way the board is going?

Personally speaking I think this thread is adding to the animosity rather than appeasing it .

I thought so yesterday Abba, but not so much today. It's the first time in a while people have been so upfront about the subject.

Ok , fair enough .I wasnt trying to point a finger at all , I just think its been done and done again .
But maybe it is best to get it all spat out .There is only one thing that really really bugs and that is a thread started and then when people answer the OP announces it was all tongue in cheek and done to get a giggle from the replies .That drives me mad to be honest .

What I find a bit off is when someone posts something a bit unfriendly, critical or whatever towards someone else and thinks because they include a daft smiley at the end, won't get the post deleted by the moderators.

Some smileys I do consider offensive.

I hate the rollseyes smilie with a passion and will never use it. I think that there should be more extensive smilies on the DS.....there are so many out there.....they dont need to be many more but just a few more that would better express the tone of whats written, not all of us are the best word smiths.

Quote:
“We will not tolerate offensive, immature or unconstructive postings.”

not sure that this is being very strongly policed.

I miss a Doh smiley .Often when I have read a post completely wrong and feel a bit silly .

But thank the lord we dont have the Christmas ones the BBC board would hand out and the whole board was covered in champagne glasses and sugar and spice and tinsel and candles ............now I need a vomit smiley

Yes I see that its apparently adding the animosity and that was never my intention.
I was just asking a genuine question

The mods also ask us not to set ourselves up as moderators. They prefer to police the boards themselves, which is why there is an alert button. Many times the mods have intervened, removed unacceptable posts and asked people not to respond to such posts but to make use of the alert button instead.

There have always been vigorous disagreements over SCD but this is the first time I've known some posters to set themselves up as some sort of Lord Chamberlain and try to censor the way people express their opinions when they are well within the Forum rules. I prefer not to be labelled a bully and a sexual abuser, as I have been by one such poster, because I post regularly in the non-appreciation thread.

and apparently find nothing offensive in such postings either