I've just checked the rules and can't see anything in them that says this chap ought not to have posted a thing about a festival (not that he checked). Granted, he followed a link and made a post but frankly Bestival is more relevant to my interests at least than half the threads on the frontpage today.
So, here's some rules:
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THE RULES
The RULES are as follows:
Be excellent to each other.
This is a friendly community that encourages intellectual debate, discussion and freedom of speech. Personal attacks and trolling will not be tolerated.
here's his first reply on here:
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Wow, if I realised posting a link to a competition to win tickets to a festival would ruffle so many feathers I would have thought twice. I take the point of nobody on here being interested in Camp Bestival - fair enough - but in an attempt to justify posting, I always search for threads that relate to keywords and from Google discussions I found a post on here where someone was saying they were off to the green man festival which is a similar vibe to Camp Bestival. I don't make a habit of pushing irrelevant stuff, it's not worth it, as your reactions show.
Also, the competition has the backing of camp bestival and it's all above board.
Sorry to have put you all out. I'll make a note not to bother here again.
Can anyone honestly say that what followed from 'our' side doesn't constitute some of the activities we legislate against?
I'd started to make a list of things in this thread from knee-jerk name-calling to forensic slagging off to gleefully rabid cyber-stalking, all of which I'd rather just sum up as being a thread more akin to Lord of the Flies than Bill and Ted.
It's embarrassing and totally disproportionate.