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laurie
laurie
SA
3887 posts
SA, 3887 posts
5 Aug 2020 10:51am
Just a reminder that Seabreeze is a place to get away violence, conspiracies, hate, racism etc

It's a place about sport, fun, friends.

Posts containing violence etc will be removed, and posters suspended or banned without notice.

Read the whole story in the Forum Rules: www.seabreeze.com.au/Members/Help/ForumRules.aspx
legins
legins
WA
3 posts
WA, 3 posts
5 Aug 2020 9:52am
Easily the best post I have read
The GALLERY page has been hijacked by extreme political views.
SEABREEZE should ban all types of political videos and photos on that page and reserve it for the reasons we all come to the site for.
Actually they should ban all political threads, views completely from their site. I know I would visit it more often without getting smashed by the extremists who habit and post on these types of forums
Macaha
Macaha
QLD
21982 posts
QLD, 21982 posts
5 Aug 2020 11:57am
What brought that on?
swoosh
swoosh
QLD
1929 posts
QLD, 1929 posts
5 Aug 2020 12:04pm
I'm reading seabreeze now more than ever, as foiling has got me psyched on the sport again, and there is so much new and interesting stuff out there. Its awesome to read the windfoiling and SUP foiling forum and get psyched on all the epic new possibilities out there. But I have to scroll past the morons in Heavy Weather when I check Active Topics.

Just delete Heavy Weather and be done with it. Then go hard with the ban hammer, and hand out lifetime bans for anyone who can't keep it civil. Not only is it a drag on the overall website vibe, but it probably presents legal issues if you give the crazies a platform to spout their crap on as some of the social media platforms are finding. I'm honestly surprised it's been tolerated for so long. If it has to be hidden behind a curtain where only long term members can view it, why even have it at all?

Heavy Weather contributes nothing to the forum as a whole, except as an attempt to keep all the crazies in one spot. Let them find somewhere else to spout their nutjob theories. There enough of this crap on facebook etc, no need for it here. Even Facebook is struggling with giving the crazies a platform to spout their garbage in a "mature" fashion.. I wouldn't expect Seabreeze to have to try do the same.

At least give me a way to filter Heavy Weather from the Active Topics... maybe there is a way?

Anyway, my new board is here, time to go pick it up!
hilly
hilly
WA
8120 posts
WA, 8120 posts
5 Aug 2020 10:19am
swoosh said..At least give me a way to filter Heavy Weather from the Active Topics... maybe there is a way?

Anyway, my new board is here, time to go pick it up!

Great idea and even better block members so you do not see their posts.
laurie
laurie
SA
3887 posts
SA, 3887 posts
5 Aug 2020 1:01pm
swoosh said..
At least give me a way to filter Heavy Weather from the Active Topics... maybe there is a way?



Oops - it shouldn't even have been in there... shall remove. Apologies.
knot board
knot board
QLD
1241 posts
QLD, 1241 posts
5 Aug 2020 1:58pm
As a member since 2006 but rarely a poster, I can't believe the absolute ****e and drivel about conspiracy theories and politics that now gets regurgitated on a once fine watersports forum. The morons need go broadcast their rubbish on reddit or facebook or some place other than here.
sc1984
sc1984
4 posts
4 posts
5 Aug 2020 12:03pm
Swoosh is on the money I think.

Seabreeze has created a forum where these abhorrent views can fester and grow.

The culture that is allowed to grow there spills out into the other forums, along with the bullying groups of hateful persons and posts.

There are regular members who start entire topics designed to intimidate, bully and denigrate individual members but when these topics are reported, the repeat perpetrators are not suspended or banned.

Instead, it looks like the victims of these hateful topics and views are systematically bullied and then banned from the site entirely when they complain.

Management is so blind to what's going on.

Perhaps Seabreeze needs to rethink what sort of culture it is encouraging in the first place with such forums.

Perhaps the threats to remove such abhorrent forums need to be followed through or they are empty threats.

The culture will persist because it is tolerated by SB.
Mr Milk
Mr Milk
NSW
3137 posts
NSW, 3137 posts
5 Aug 2020 3:33pm
I'm often in Heavy Weather, but not once have I looked at the active topics button.
I come to the site on the local wind forecast page, then Forums and select the one I want to view.
I like the nutcases in HW. Without them, I'd never read some of the fringe ideas that they take seriously.
I particularly like the ones who say we should not just accept what we are told and do our own research.
Just last night that encouraged me to find out a bit more about 5G phones.
Apparently the mm wave band is too short to penetrate buildings, so I guess I'll be safe from them if I stay indoors.
The beauty of HW is that is a place which allows people from all directions on the political compass to air their views, no matter how wrong headed and have them seen by other people who wouldn't come across them elsewhere.
The problem is that the debate often degenerates to pre school level.
saltiest1
saltiest1
NSW
2568 posts
NSW, 2568 posts
5 Aug 2020 3:45pm
Just needs more boobies though.







laurie
laurie
SA
3887 posts
SA, 3887 posts
5 Aug 2020 3:22pm
sc1984 said..
Swoosh is on the money I think.

Seabreeze has created a forum where these abhorrent views can fester and grow.

The culture that is allowed to grow there spills out into the other forums, along with the bullying groups of hateful persons and posts.

There are regular members who start entire topics designed to intimidate, bully and denigrate individual members but when these topics are reported, the repeat perpetrators are not suspended or banned.

Instead, it looks like the victims of these hateful topics and views are systematically bullied and then banned from the site entirely when they complain.

Management is so blind to what's going on.

Perhaps Seabreeze needs to rethink what sort of culture it is encouraging in the first place with such forums.

Perhaps the threats to remove such abhorrent forums need to be followed through or they are empty threats.

The culture will persist because it is tolerated by SB.


A new login after being banned, and 4 posts in and you are attacking myself, Seabreeze and other members.

We're pretty easy going here. For example, we've banned less than 5 people in 12 months (excuding spammers). Of the thousands in here, 99% get along and need no moderation or banning.

Perhaps it's time to look at your contribution to where we are today. Maybe it's not "everybody else".

It's up to you, with your new login (number 4?).

Time for a fresh start, a new outlook, work to get along with others.

I believe you can. We're all friends here.
laurie
laurie
SA
3887 posts
SA, 3887 posts
5 Aug 2020 3:25pm
swoosh said..

At least give me a way to filter Heavy Weather from the Active Topics... maybe there is a way?





All fixed .. Heavy Weather should never have been in there, thanks for the heads up.

HW has been purged from the Gallery, and any other places .. the only way you will know about it, is if you click that Heavy Weather tab; and only a very small number of members can access it.

If you or anyone else find it gets in your way, please do let me know .. we're in the process of phasing it out...


Meanwhile, I want my $1000
www.engadget.com/facebook-content-moderators-lawsuit-settlement-212601146.html
FormulaNova
FormulaNova
WA
15100 posts
WA, 15100 posts
5 Aug 2020 2:10pm
..will receive the payments as compensation for mental health issues they may have developed while assessing potentially harmful material on the platform

Does this apply to all forums? I read something about Windwings once and I am traumatised.
GreenPat
GreenPat
QLD
4103 posts
QLD, 4103 posts
5 Aug 2020 9:41pm
laurie said..

swoosh said..

At least give me a way to filter Heavy Weather from the Active Topics... maybe there is a way?






All fixed .. Heavy Weather should never have been in there, thanks for the heads up.

HW has been purged from the Gallery, and any other places .. the only way you will know about it, is if you click that Heavy Weather tab; and only a very small number of members can access it.

If you or anyone else find it gets in your way, please do let me know .. we're in the process of phasing it out...


Meanwhile, I want my $1000
www.engadget.com/facebook-content-moderators-lawsuit-settlement-212601146.html


I'll give you mine, I don't think I did enough moderating to earn it and I also supported the concept of HW from the beginning. I thought it would be a neat way of getting that stuff out of STB, but it's not really working and not worth the effort.

Nice to see a few of the other old timers stick their heads up here .
poor relative
poor relative
WA
9106 posts
WA, 9106 posts
5 Aug 2020 8:28pm
HW is just full of paranoid consipiracy theorists predicting the ned of the world and neferious actvities by well known talk shopw hosts.
Its like home and away just different subject matter and more paranoia
cauncy
cauncy
WA
8407 posts
WA, 8407 posts
5 Aug 2020 8:44pm
poor relative said..
HW is just full of paranoid consipiracy theorists predicting the ned of the world and neferious actvities by well known talk shopw hosts.
Its like home and away just different subject matter and more paranoia


Wrong, it's full of water lovers that love hooch too much and have become conspiracy theorists
VB MAN
VB MAN
1156 posts
1156 posts
5 Aug 2020 8:45pm
^^^
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
23647 posts
WA, 23647 posts
5 Aug 2020 11:07pm
I always did think the whole place was under-moderated

Other fora I frequented for other hobbies, both overseas and aussie-based, would boot people daily just for not looking serious enough by not posting in the noobs room or making smartarse comments too early (that may be tolerated after a few months of regular posting for example). I was pretty surprised at what was tolerated here - not talking about HW, just the constant juvenile trolling by some members. Like the red thumbs thing where certain people had dished out thousands of red thumbs and a handful of green... not earth-shatteringly important but did show their mind set......

So when HW started, that culture was already in place. It wasn't going to just go away

HW was needed to get alien chemtrails out of the normal fora, but its gone too far now.

My 19c worth. Possibly not even that much.
Imax1
Imax1
QLD
4937 posts
QLD, 4937 posts
6 Aug 2020 6:54am
cauncy said..

poor relative said..
HW is just full of paranoid consipiracy theorists predicting the ned of the world and neferious actvities by well known talk shopw hosts.
Its like home and away just different subject matter and more paranoia



Wrong, it's full of water lovers that love hooch too much and have become conspiracy theorists


It's full of water lovers that have taken on too much water .
TonyAbbott
TonyAbbott
924 posts
924 posts
6 Aug 2020 5:37am
Imax1 said..

cauncy said..


poor relative said..
HW is just full of paranoid consipiracy theorists predicting the ned of the world and neferious actvities by well known talk shopw hosts.
Its like home and away just different subject matter and more paranoia




Wrong, it's full of water lovers that love hooch too much and have become conspiracy theorists



It's full of water lovers that have taken on too much water .


Too much Fluoride?
Rabbs
Rabbs
251 posts
251 posts
6 Aug 2020 7:06am
I'd like to never see any covid posts on here.
It's on the news 24/7.

Seems to cause division between members who would otherwise be posting water sports related topics.

bjw
bjw
QLD
3689 posts
bjw bjw
QLD, 3689 posts
6 Aug 2020 9:09am
It's amazing how often people post Heavy Weather stuff in General.

It's like that one guy who goes for a swim amongst 50 Kiters. He just shouldn't be there.
bjw
bjw
QLD
3689 posts
bjw bjw
QLD, 3689 posts
6 Aug 2020 9:11am
I reckon Laurie should bring back red thumbs. It informs people that they are off topic or out of line. Settles the crazies.
cauncy
cauncy
WA
8407 posts
WA, 8407 posts
6 Aug 2020 1:26pm
bjw said..
I reckon Laurie should bring back red thumbs. It informs people that they are off topic or out of line. Settles the crazies.


But getting a red thumb offends some, causing distress anxiety and the will to live
Mrknownothing
Mrknownothing
QLD
147 posts
QLD, 147 posts
6 Aug 2020 3:56pm
I want red thumbs back purely to red thumb every post of loftys or whatever he calls himself now.
JulianRoss
JulianRoss
WA
544 posts
WA, 544 posts
6 Aug 2020 3:13pm
I really appreciate the funny images. Some of that stuff makes me cry laugh they are so good. So thanks to those that find that stuff.
Cobra
Cobra
9106 posts
9106 posts
6 Aug 2020 3:17pm



Shifu
Shifu
QLD
1997 posts
QLD, 1997 posts
6 Aug 2020 5:34pm
I'm a Heavy Weather survivor. Haven't look back since I left.
thegreatsup
thegreatsup
579 posts
579 posts
6 Aug 2020 3:44pm
What exactly is all this all heavy weather chat? I looked but couldn't find it? Sounds like some interesting reading
Kamikuza
Kamikuza
QLD
6493 posts
QLD, 6493 posts
6 Aug 2020 8:26pm
Shifu said..
I'm a Heavy Weather survivor. Haven't look back since I left.


You're not missed either, so ... win win.
Rails
Rails
QLD
1371 posts
QLD, 1371 posts
7 Aug 2020 4:19am
Mrknownothing said..
I want red thumbs back purely to red thumb every post of loftys or whatever he calls himself now.


Lotofwind at the moment I believe
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