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Old 15-12-2014, 19:26
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OK, the posts made by someone with a username TerryM22 were consciously disruptive, bouncing threads, provocative and bordering on spam. But I'm sure he's a diamond geezer really


I also agree with Janet43's comments
Of the few Terry threads that I read (you do have a choice to read or not read) I was never particularly aware of the those things you complain about, wouldn't bother me anyway. Live and let live.
we have a forum full of people tearing celebs and pros to pieces, criticising their appearance, their looks, their stature, their size, their faces, their expressions, their words, deeds and dancing, in the most unpleasant and ridiculously over the top way... people telling other posters what they can and can't comment on and attempting to pull rank on each other (be that by age, forum experience, real dance experience, imaginary dance experience, etc etc ad nauseam)....

and people are bothered by a bit of terry alliteration, innuendo, capitals and poor spelling?
Ha ha - so true!
Which, in essence, is what many did in the thread that precipitated the mods creating this one.

If you read what has been said, the vast majority of people - myself included - have complained about the spamming and bumping of threads which was designed to cause a logjam on the front page. In some instances, FMs also complained about the increasingly salacious nature of some of his posts. That also included me.

They were not complaints aimed at Terry as an individual, but at his posts and threads and behaviour which contravened T&Cs.
You know that for a fact - or just assuming?
Wow - what have I been missing???
He didn't break any rules. "Terry hasn't broken any rules - it's a forum and if you don't like what's being discussed, it isn't hard to ignore a thread", or words to that effect were used by the mods. They told us that twice... before giving into the mob.
What has joining dates got to do with anything? I discovered Digital Spy back in 2008/2009. Can't remember if I found this forum at the end of The X Factor 2008 or during Big Brother 2009, but I was definitely here to see Sophie win Big Brother in 2009 - that's five years. I wasn't particularly interested in taking part in any discussions so had no reason to join (and I'm sure it was a £5 charge or something), I just liked to check how my favourites were going down with the public on these shows.

I really don't see the problem - like I said somewhere else in this thread, I manage to use the soap forum very easily, despite the fact I only watch Emmerdale.
If you don't watch the soaps or visit that forum, go over there now and see how many Emmerdale threads are on page 1/2/3. You'll find it's very, very little. Yet, it really isn't that difficult for me to avoid/ignore any other soap thread, and I don't see why this is any different.

Just because YOU aren't interested in reading certain threads, doesn't/shouldn't mean they all get merged. Or can I go over to the soap forum and kick up a fuss? They better bloody merge all those EastEnders threads since they're no interest to me! All they do is clog up the first page and I can't discuss Emmerdale. It's not fair Maybe if I get enough Emmerdale and Corrie fans to moan about it, I can make it happen? That's how the mods work now, isn't it?

People are just being awkward... if it really is as much as a problem to avoid certain threads as much as some make out, then I despair - what are they even doing on a computer?
So true - you make some very goods points.
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Old 15-12-2014, 19:35
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Wow - what have I been missing???


I'm guessing the threads where he was doing .....
the spamming and bumping of threads which was designed to cause a logjam on the front page.
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Old 15-12-2014, 19:35
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He didn't break any rules. "Terry hasn't broken any rules - it's a forum and if you don't like what's being discussed, it isn't hard to ignore a thread", or words to that effect were used by the mods. They told us that twice... before giving into the mob.



What has joining dates got to do with anything? I discovered Digital Spy back in 2008/2009. Can't remember if I found this forum at the end of The X Factor 2008 or during Big Brother 2009, but I was definitely here to see Sophie win Big Brother in 2009 - that's five years. I wasn't particularly interested in taking part in any discussions so had no reason to join (and I'm sure it was a £5 charge or something), I just liked to check how my favourites were going down with the public on these shows.

I really don't see the problem - like I said somewhere else in this thread, I manage to use the soap forum very easily, despite the fact I only watch Emmerdale.
If you don't watch the soaps or visit that forum, go over there now and see how many Emmerdale threads are on page 1/2/3. You'll find it's very, very little. Yet, it really isn't that difficult for me to avoid/ignore any other soap thread, and I don't see why this is any different.

Just because YOU aren't interested in reading certain threads, doesn't/shouldn't mean they all get merged. Or can I go over to the soap forum and kick up a fuss? They better bloody merge all those EastEnders threads since they're no interest to me! All they do is clog up the first page and I can't discuss Emmerdale. It's not fair Maybe if I get enough Emmerdale and Corrie fans to moan about it, I can make it happen? That's how the mods work now, isn't it?

People are just being awkward... if it really is as much as a problem to avoid certain threads as much as some make out, then I despair - what are they even doing on a computer?

My usual forum for most of the year is Discussion Time on Moneysaving Expert. Believe you me, here it is sweetness & light by comparison. They have one FM who creates a new user virtually every day due to having Posting Privileges Revoked so frequently.

When the front page is dominated by one person bumping up their own threads it is impossible to avoid. Let alone when someone starts similar topics to pre-existing ones started by others, or even a virtual repeat of their own threads. This is not what I would class as being involved in a discussion.

You will find I create very few threads as I bother to check to see if someone has started one already.

Now it seems anyone who was fed up with the OTT front page thread bumping is being picked on. Or are alternative opinions not allowed any more?

PS I have been using computers for 42 YEARS - even back in the days of card & paper tape.
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Old 15-12-2014, 19:47
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Being new to the SCD forum i must admit i didn't notice the Terry threads dominating the first page. What first alerted me to the Terry situation was the way other posters communicated with him, generally very condescending and high and mighty. I did however notice some rather inane threads been posted by him. I say him, I've a funny feeling Terry is a woman?!
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Old 19-12-2014, 20:15
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One? Dead easy. Ten? Irritating.

When did urbane get redefined? Otherwise I've rarely seen a word so misapplied.

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From a careful study at The School of Urbane Studies over decades I saw Terry's urbanity as a sort of retro urbanity. Sort of like Home Counties South Peter Jones shopping urbanity. You really don't want too much of that sort of ugly inner-city urbanity thingy turning up with your daughter.

So perhaps more suburbane than proper conventional in your face urbane. Perhaps Surbiton rather than Shoreditch.
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Old 19-12-2014, 20:30
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Because I felt the need to reply to some of the things he said, such as female dancers deliberately flashing their crotches at the camera. That wasn't provocative? It was demeaning to the female dancers and needed to be corrected. Didn't work though.
Fair enough. But maybe he disagreed with you?

But that comment (I believe) wasn't in one of the threads that was "his" and obviously his at a glance by way of CAPITALS and very long title.

Unless he made the same comment in a TERRY THREAD which I was unaware of as I never read his threads.

But if you never read his threads (like I didn't) how did you know he made such a comment in a TERRY THREAD? - if he in fact did.

This is about the TERRY THREADS
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Old 19-12-2014, 20:52
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My usual forum for most of the year is Discussion Time on Moneysaving Expert. Believe you me, here it is sweetness & light by comparison. They have one FM who creates a new user virtually every day due to having Posting Privileges Revoked so frequently.

When the front page is dominated by one person bumping up their own threads it is impossible to avoid. Let alone when someone starts similar topics to pre-existing ones started by others, or even a virtual repeat of their own threads. This is not what I would class as being involved in a discussion.

You will find I create very few threads as I bother to check to see if someone has started one already.

Now it seems anyone who was fed up with the OTT front page thread bumping is being picked on.

Or are alternative opinions not allowed any more?

PS I have been using computers for 42 YEARS - even back in the days of card & paper tape.
42 years? Is that all? I ask you. Crikey these computer beginners come on here and talk a load of ... [I can raise you by two years on computers ]

This thread merger is apparently a result of TERRY'S frequent and (allegedly) bumped THREADS.

Personally I would always search for a thread rather than create a new one. But that is bumping. You say you are against bumping but proudly state that you bump old threads like I do.

Duplicate threads about Pixie annoyed me far more than TERRY'S THREADS which had very long titles including several words in CAPITALS. Easy to spot and move on. Much easier to spot than meaningless titles such as "omg" or "I'm leaving" or "sob"
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:08
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42 years? Is that all? I ask you. Crikey these computer beginners come on here and talk a load of ... [I can raise you by two years on computers ]

This thread merger is apparently a result of TERRY'S frequent and (allegedly) bumped THREADS.

Personally I would always search for a thread rather than create a new one. But that is bumping. You say you are against bumping but proudly state that you bump old threads like I do.

Duplicate threads about Pixie annoyed me far more than TERRY'S THREADS which had very long titles including several words in CAPITALS. Easy to spot and move on. Much easier to spot than meaningless titles such as "omg" or "I'm leaving" or "sob"
Agree over the multiple threads, but that happens in bursts whenever something stirs up DS Members. Mods combined them and we move on.

However I do at least bump someone else's thread & not my own. You would be unable to reply otherwise.

In all this it was the mods made the decision on how to deal with the situation. Yet those of us who admit they were fed up are being blamed.
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:20
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Does SOBBING mean you will WIN? Crying is the HARDEST thing to Do.

Frankie's Legs - are they REAL, or is it just CGI that makes them look so Crap in Latin?

CAROLINE - an AT to die for or WERE her Hesitations FOR the Usual Reason - nerves?




I miss Terry sometimes

(or what I would write if I were a mad thread starter).
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:20
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Is this like that episode of Brookside when someone decided to dig up the patio?
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:31
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Is this like that episode of Brookside when someone decided to dig up the patio?
I'm baffled and go with it.
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:39
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we have a forum full of people tearing celebs and pros to pieces, criticising their appearance, their looks, their stature, their size, their faces, their expressions, their words, deeds and dancing, in the most unpleasant and ridiculously over the top way... people telling other posters what they can and can't comment on and attempting to pull rank on each other (be that by age, forum experience, real dance experience, imaginary dance experience, etc etc ad nauseam)....

and people are bothered by a bit of terry alliteration, innuendo, capitals and poor spelling?
Great post. The real reason people had it in for Terry imo was that during the series we all get worked up for our fave contestants/dancers and those we don't like, then Terry would open threads that divided and many lashed their anger at him and used his eccentric style as an excuse. For example am i right in remembering that he often made negative threads about Brendan? Well i think it's not shocking that some of Brendans hardcore fans were not happy with him for that. I reckon the more people calm down they will realise how over the top they were in reacting so poorly to a member who was a bit of a wind up but without any malice.
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:39
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Does SOBBING mean you will WIN? Crying is the HARDEST thing to Do.

Frankie's Legs - are they REAL, or is it just CGI that makes them look so Crap in Latin?

CAROLINE - an AT to die for or WERE her Hesitations FOR the Usual Reason - nerves?




I miss Terry sometimes

(or what I would write if I were a mad thread starter).
I am beginning to feel that I have done myself an incredible injustice in having IGNORED all those TERRY threads over the years.

How a little ALLITERATION by one man (or woman or none of the above) can lead to intemperate ILLITERACY by so many.

i HAVE wronged myself by being so dismissive as a beginner in TERRY STUDIES. Another couple of YEARS of TERRY TRACKING would have helped me appreciate him (or her) so much.

Could somebody with more experience please create a BEST OF TERRY TITLES and post them. Now that they have been merged they are lost. It is a bit like burning books.

The forum, nay, civilisation as we know it, is so much poorer being TERRY FREE.

Oh yes FREE TERRY OK.
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:41
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By the way i see Pet Monkey is now a "guest" was he banned or leave over something on this thread?
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:47
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By the way i see Pet Monkey is now a "guest" was he banned or leave over something on this thread?
Maybe somebody complained about her support of Terry?

Oh well. I'm banning myself in sympathy. She's lovely. The kindest warmest nicest person on the forum.

This is my last post. PMs might get through to me.
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:51
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Maybe somebody complained about her support of Terry?

She's lovely. The kindest nicest person on the forum.
Oops i didn't realise that she was a woman and i have enjoyed her points on this thread so thought it was odd her status has changed.
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:52
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By the way i see Pet Monkey is now a "guest" was he banned or leave over something on this thread?
Banned people are shown as 'inactive'

I've never seen 'guest' before.

I've viewed forum when I've deliberately logged out in the past, but that still shows me as 'Forum member' so I don't know how you get to be a 'guest'.
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Old 19-12-2014, 21:56
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Banned people are shown as 'inactive'

I've never seen 'guest' before.

I've viewed forum when I've deliberately logged out in the past, but that still shows me as 'Forum member' so I don't know how you get to be a 'guest'.
Yeah that is why i was baffled by what guest meant but i just checked their most recent posts and i think they have left the forum and had their membership removed.
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Old 19-12-2014, 22:02
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By the way i see Pet Monkey is now a "guest" was he banned or leave over something on this thread?
PS I'm cancelling my registration with DS. Just didn't want anyone to think I'd been banned!! Haven't ever been that bad
sad to see a lovely FM leave..... one less voice of dissent.
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Old 19-12-2014, 22:14
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Banned people are shown as 'inactive'

I've never seen 'guest' before.

I've viewed forum when I've deliberately logged out in the past, but that still shows me as 'Forum member' so I don't know how you get to be a 'guest'.
I think 'guest' is when you ask the mods to deactivate your account. Kind of a self banning.

If you look back at old threads there are lots of guest posters.
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Old 19-12-2014, 22:16
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I agree. Personally I was mostly amused by the sly mischief, deadpan innuendo and bland provocation of Terry's threads. His absurd preoccupations - the Blessed Anne Widdicombe, Lulu and 'Brenden' etc. - struck me as a kind of parodic response to the rancorous obsessions of other posters. The disappearance of his threads has eclipsed the gaiety of the forum.
we have a forum full of people tearing celebs and pros to pieces, criticising their appearance, their looks, their stature, their size, their faces, their expressions, their words, deeds and dancing, in the most unpleasant and ridiculously over the top way... people telling other posters what they can and can't comment on and attempting to pull rank on each other (be that by age, forum experience, real dance experience, imaginary dance experience, etc etc ad nauseam)....

and people are bothered by a bit of terry alliteration, innuendo, capitals and poor spelling?
I wasn't going to post in here but had to say how much I agree with both of these posts, especially yours primer ... probably the only thing I have in common with Terry is that I'm not a fan of Brendan either .... has he been driven away now
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Old 19-12-2014, 23:03
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Some have made the mistake of presuming TerryM22 was addressing them. Many of the posts were deliberately empty bumping of his own or the most contentious threads. Their purpose was to demonstrate the impotence of the moderation in the face of his formula of disrupting the forum, by exploiting the limitations of the letter of the terms and conditions in the shallowest way.

The fact that he had to affect simpleton innocence to comply with the formula and there were those taken in by it, was neither the fault of the rest of the forum or the moderators.

Once moderators suspected a battle of wills, the outcome was inevitably in their favour.
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Old 19-12-2014, 23:11
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I am beginning to feel that I have done myself an incredible injustice in having IGNORED all those TERRY threads over the years.

How a little ALLITERATION by one man (or woman or none of the above) can lead to intemperate ILLITERACY by so many.

i HAVE wronged myself by being so dismissive as a beginner in TERRY STUDIES. Another couple of YEARS of TERRY TRACKING would have helped me appreciate him (or her) so much.

Could somebody with more experience please create a BEST OF TERRY TITLES and post them. Now that they have been merged they are lost. It is a bit like burning books.

The forum, nay, civilisation as we know it, is so much poorer being TERRY FREE.

Oh yes FREE TERRY OK.
There are plenty of unmerged Terry threads if you are serious about continuing your education. Just click on the user name and select show all threads and there's plenty to while away the time with.
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Old 20-12-2014, 07:06
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By the way i see Pet Monkey is now a "guest" was he banned or leave over something on this thread?
Pet Monkey cancelled her registration with DS on Dec 15th.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...894589&page=98

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I was kind of sad too- I liked her very humane approach to even the unkindest of posts.
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Old 20-12-2014, 09:24
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One of the things I liked about Terry's threads was the way in which they captured the frivolity and lightness of Strictly laced with Carry On double entendres, petulant abuse mostly aimed at Brenden (sic) and Lulu love.

I don't find that this forum is any better in quality since he stopped posting on it although that could just be because for many people it's not easy to get über-excited about this year's finalists.

I have never known this forum so dead in the final week of Strictly.
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