I see that someone has decided to copy and paste a comment they don't agree with on here onto Twitter, with predictable results. To me this smacks of cyber bullying. It's fine for people to disagree with comments (that's what a forum is about), but when certain groups of fans denigrate another and start using terms like "plastic", I find it very disturbing. I think that discussions on a private forum should stay that way. I hope the admins take a dim view of this.
Speaking only for myself here, I've sort of given up caring what happens now.
Our own fans started the process of screenshotting comments on here and using them on Twitter for likes and whatever else, now other fans are doing it and rightfully, or in some cases wrongfully, mocking us for it.
Twitter is equally as bad as the forum at times, if not more of the time, but it's easier to call people out anonymously than to tag them in anything on Twitter isn't it. There are some quite well known members of our own fanbase who publicly claim to never look at the forum anymore, but the details from their accounts show a completely different story. But again, it's easier to claim the 'likes' and whatnot.
Twitter is as bad, if not worse than the forum, and I say that despite us having the Twitter account for the forum. People tagging players in abuse and whatnot, at least we have an element of moderation here, even if myself and James are not as public as we once were.
The forum will remain open and free for anyone to use, we're not going to be able to stop people commenting on Twitter and I certainly have no aim to do that. The forum has been useful at various times over the past 11 years now, and no doubt when something major does happen the same people lambasting us on Twitter will probably be back on here asking for support, as they have done before.
Perhaps the better thing is as someone else has said above is for posters to just have a think about their posts before hitting the 'post' button on some of the more outlandish claims.