Would it change anything if the general was made 'hidden' like the Newbie Forums where you had to be logged in/given access to be able to see it?
General Forum shutdown
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
1) Noodle's house of FunSuggestions for a name of a temporary general forum replacement?
2) The B_Cantona Memorial W*nkfest
3) Geoff
Like all the other warnings people have had?
That's the Transfer Forum!
And stay out of the entertainment forum, folks.
E)boueSuggestions for a name of a temporary general forum replacement?
I suppose, it's a bit worrying that Google have this power though.
The Lance Uppercunt Experience, featuring R Nick.
Football-Bloody hell!
If I'm reading Niall's announcement right, it's not that there was a rash of new porn being posted, but rather Google AdSense dug up a bunch in the archives.
Solius' General Hideaway
A friend of mine had photographs of 'rude vegetables' on Facebook and Facebook took them down. Bum shaped tomatoes and all!
Call it 'DEFINITELY NO PORN IN HERE'
Does this mean we have to talk about football?
In the past when these warnings are given they've been ignored, as they have with the last one.
Lieutenant ChatSuggestions for a name of a temporary general forum replacement?
Perfect time for the Internet - Serious Business pic?
It's the power of $$$. We're theoretically perfectly free to have as much porn as we like, but unless we're going to charge everyone ten quid a month to see it, Google won't support it with their ads.
I've always said this should be the case anyway, if you're not a member in the mains you don't see it.
Not ignored, just hard to get everything.
What about making the general ad-free and charging a small subscription fee?
I know, but I imagine half the internet's in the same position.
I don't see the general as expendable. It's like heroin, it's necessary for lots of drug addicts.
Make the transfer forum subscription-only. You know THEM muppets will pay.
The feck Google ForumSuggestions for a name of a temporary general forum replacement?
And the other half is porn.
The day the generals died!
Call the new forum "The Celibate Zone."
Which in fairness is true and why so many beautiful ladies were posted.
The Paul Gascoigne Memorial Shrine Forum needs to be set up immediately.
Which in fairness is true and why so many beautiful ladies were posted.
The Paul Gascoigne Memorial Shrine Forum needs to be set up immediately.
I will never understand these sorts of decisions by advertisers. Surely people who look at soft porn and have explicit and vulgar conversations are just as worth advertising to as those that don't. It's not as if people visit this site in order to see the adverts and no-one who visits this site associates the content of the site with the advertisers here.
This sort of censorship is parallel to the big supermarket chains dictating what magazines have on their front covers, but has a considerably less understandable basis. As Twisted_Woody said: it is a very small step from censorship for this reason and censorship on the basis of political or religious opinion.
I fully understand that market forces dictate this but it is a very sad day when Google starts to censor the internet.
This sort of censorship is parallel to the big supermarket chains dictating what magazines have on their front covers, but has a considerably less understandable basis. As Twisted_Woody said: it is a very small step from censorship for this reason and censorship on the basis of political or religious opinion.
I fully understand that market forces dictate this but it is a very sad day when Google starts to censor the internet.
A Haiku:
General Chat, murdered
The killer? Google Adsense
More like 'no sense' lol
General Chat, murdered
The killer? Google Adsense
More like 'no sense' lol
So, which one's the best breakaway forum then?
Cafe PurgatorySuggestions for a name of a temporary general forum replacement?
Anyone I'm off to search something explicit on Google's search engine.
I meant posters have continued to post this stuff, not that the mods haven't been enforcing it.
The bloke posting the pics of the cocks the other day being the first example off the top of my...er...head.
The new and improved general forum!
This is bizarre!
Quite hypocritical from Google, if porn was removed from the interwebs Google would go into administration.
90% of Googles traffic must be porn.
90% of Googles traffic must be porn.
The General.
Anyway, good luck getting the ads back Niall. Someone I know ran a site, Google Adsense blocked it and they wouldn't change the decision.
this has happened to a lot of message boards recently.
call the new forum "General Chat - Classified U"
call the new forum "General Chat - Classified U"