How to cancell membership

[Slartibardfast]

Please inform me how to cancel my membership.

Cheers.

[Papewaio]

But but you're an aussie aren't you?

To cancel membership, I suppose one just stops posting...

[KukriKhan]

Please inform me how to cancel my membership.

Cheers.

Start>Search>All Files and Folders>'cookies'

Find the one that contains "Totalwar.org"; right-click, select 'delete', left-click. Done.

Should you accidentally return, the site won't remember who you are.

[Slartibardfast]

Yes Papewaio I am an Aussie and like most of us, that are not politicians, I tend to call it like it is.

It's on a matter of principle and probably childish in some eyes.

I'm no stranger to controversy. I like stirring the pot, it sometimes gets people to re-evaluate entrenched patterns of thought which sometimes leads to a better understanding between peoples and possibly a better world because of this. I'll take the flack I cause from stirring said pot, and I'm not beyond giving a public apology when I do cross the line into full John Cleese mode, which being a Grumpy Old Man with PTSD happens more often than I'd like.

Whilst trying to provide helpful info to a fellow forum member in a particular thread, (and I stress we were not debating a perceived point of history, or the human condition, I was simply recommending a mod for a popular PC game and providing the reasons for my recommendation,) another forum writer made what was an obvious, unprovoked, needless and thoughtless personal attack on the quality of my intelligence. (Which I admit, like all people, is questionable at times as I've done my fair share of very stupid things.)

Making an observation of the situation I had an oblique go at this person in what under habeas corpus would be seen as the rite of reply and I was well prepared to take any punishment metered out for my comments (A severe warning with 2 points as a result.)

However the resulting public dressing down by the forum moderator (in contravention of accepted managerial and administrative practices) and the editing of my rite of reply, so any readers are made unaware of the nature of my grievance and the context of my reply, and thus why I was being dressed down, smacks of railroading censorship.

A Kangaroo Court and that's just not cricket is it?

If the moderator in question had of done his job and addressed the original obnoxious and needlessly offensive remark, old farts like myself wouldn't be offended a week later and post our old fart equally offensive observational replies.

Enough winging!

On the bright side with the form Viduka has been in we're going to flog the Danes next week. (Apologies to any Danish readers for being so presumptuous and any offence this may have caused.)

Still want to cancel my membership though.

The comments made by Slartibardfast are his own and not endorsed or held by The Guild, it's officials or administrators.

[KukriKhan]

Heh, sorry to see you leave, mate... looks like you'd be an asset to the joint, after you'd bought the tw.org mantra of: "respectable guys, respectfully offering respectful critique".

Pity ya never got that far. Best of luck to ya.

[Warluster]

Aye, we lose another Aussie from the Guild, we will miss ya!

[sapi]

Sorry to see you go.

In the interests of being nice, i won't express the doubt i feel that our soccer team will win a match, nor will i be the spelling and grammar nazi i usually am.

But losing another aussie is always sad :(

[caravel]

Slartibardfast, sorry to see you go also, but I think you took offence too easily to what was posted. Yes it was tactless and badly worded, but sometimes one has to make excuses on a messageboard when dealing with different ages and cultures. You were in the right to start with, but immediately placed yourself in the wrong once the personal attack began. The moderator was right in that respect.

I strongly believe you should stay and just get over this minor incident. If you enjoy posting on this board there is no reason for you to leave. I myself had a few run ins with the men (and women) in green when I first started out here. Once you understand how the place operates it will all click into place. Your post was probably edited to diffuse the situation and maintain a "fuzzy atmosphere". If it had remained in place, it would have probably provoked more reaction from other posters and resulted in the thread going off topic and being closed. This way the thread stays open and the situation is diffused. I can understand that it may appear as a sort of "cover up" or an attempt to whitewash the whole thing, but it isn't.

[Grey_Fox]

Don't be so sensitive.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Bye!

[doc_bean]

I heard Mithrandir wants to try that InstaGib thing out on a member

[Fragony]

Now that we are here, can someone explain me how not to watch tv?

[Redleg]

Now that we are here, can someone explain me how not to watch tv?

Turn it off, if its too much of a tempation throw it out the window, but make sure no-one is below - that would be my suggestion

[Andres]

Now that we are here, can someone explain me how not to watch tv?

I assume that's a rhetorical question.

Sorry, can't hold it any longer:

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[Caius]

Cmon, dont be like Aulus Liburnius Maximus Britanicus.

Why if you want to go, go.
It sad lose a member.

[caravel]

Cmon, dont be like Aulus Liburnius Maximus Britanicus.

In order to be like him he'd need to first change his name to Slartius Bardius Fastidius, then he'd need to change is again, and again, and again before finally leaving. That's the accepted protocol.

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Hmmmm... Caravelus Maximmus Stupidicus... hmmm perhaps not.

[R'as al Ghul]

That's the accepted protocol.

I thought it was:
"Don't log in for a week without prior announcement in the frontroom" which gets you insta banned.

[caravel]

I thought it was:
"Don't log in for a week without prior announcement in the frontroom" which gets you insta banned.

Is that what happened to him then? I thought he had returned and asked for his account to be deleted?

There's simply too much latin on this board lately, the wrong kind of latin.

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The right kind of latin has dark eyes black jet black long hair and some nice curves.

[R'as al Ghul]

Is that what happened to him then?

I was trying to be funny.....
I need to improve my english humour...........and my latin.

[Andres]

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The right kind of latin has dark eyes black jet black long hair and some nice curves.

Exactly.

You forgot to add this: or this one

Btw Caravel, where's your avatar? On a holiday?

Those lazy avatars these days

[Dutch_guy]

I heard Mithrandir wants to try that InstaGib thing out on a member

Didn't he change his name ?

[edyzmedieval]

Hmmm, Mithrandir => Camel?

[caravel]

I was trying to be funny.....
I need to improve my english humour

My sense of humour appears to be on holiday with my avatar today...

...........and my latin.

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Hmmmm... R'asus Alexandrus Ghulus...

[Csargo]

Didn't he change his name ?

Yes it went from Mith to ----.

But to be honest ---- is a crazy awesome name.

[doc_bean]

Didn't he change his name ?

next you're going to tell me i can't talk about capo or don or gert or simon

name changes FTL !

[Slartibardfast]

Thanks KukriKhan, will do.

I've called someone a wanker previously, using it in the right context, without repercussion.

I also fail to see how quoting someone's own words with out further comment can constitute a personnal attack.

The real irony is the moderator used a personal attack to repremand myself for a personal attack.

So long guys and thanks for all the fish.

[Slartibardfast]

Grey Fox part of why I was penalised for was using your signature.

[Caius]

ask Tosa for your account

[caravel]

Slartibardfast: I hate to see a member leave over something so trivial. I do hope you reconsider, but if not then I wish you all the best in the future. I hope you will leave your account here open and that you will return in the near future. I'm sure if you discuss this with the mod in question in a reasonable manner this whole issue can be resolved. How you perceive something is often different to how someone else will perceive it. I have found this out myself in the past, to my cost. Mods do make mistakes as well, and if this is all a simple misunderstanding then I'm sure that the mod involved will be the first one to hold their hands up and admit it.

[Andres]

Just PM Froggy, explain your problem in a civilised way, I'm sure the two of you will sort it out.

In case your decision cannot be changed, allow me to wish you good luck in whatever you plan to do in the future