Can I bring the following point from the forum guidelines to certain people's attention...

"Enjoy the forum and please respect your fellow fans and posters and their viewpoints."

In my view, this has recently degenerated and we've had people being called muppet, tosser, piece of shit et al.

Quite apart from showing yourself up when doing this, it drags the forum down and decreases the chance of anyone e.g. EFFC, other clubs, other team's fans respecting our views.

So, pack it in basically. If you've got a problem with this, it's probably best you don't continue to post on here.

Thanks.

Agree with these sentiments. Been guilty in the past myself at over-reacting to fellow users. Can we extend the same courtesy to players and managers? Threads titled "Fuck off Levein" etc?

Can we extend the same courtesy to players and managers? Threads titled "Fuck off Levein" etc?

Nope that one is quite legitamate!!

It's not thinly veiled, it's a valid comment. I agree with KOTS. We can make our arguments constructive without resorting to abuse. Agree with that or disagree, it's up to you.

It's GoF's site. He can write Fuck Off Levein if he wants. It's as simple as that. You are not grasping it. Next you'll be telling him what to write on his blogs. This is a popular site. It's not a public charity East Fife and SFA regime propaganda site. What kind of a human being tells the owner of a site what not to write?

Oh......and FUCK OFF LEVEIN.

Kings of Fife can express that view. No problem with that.

Not going to change anything.

There will be a lot more "Fuck off Levein" style threads until he does indeed fuck off. And if I feel like starting one for Collumbine and the Board, which is very close, then that will happen too.

This site would be a lot less depressing if the regular users on it stopped abusing each other. We're in a small enough minority as East Fife fans as it is without turning on each other when we're all fighting for the same goal.

Trolling Raith and Cowden fans on the other hand can be abused to everyone's hearts are content.

People who bring our clubs and country down, and opposing players and managers, have always been abused by AFTN and will continue to be so.

If anyone doesn't like that, then they're free to just not come here.

It is not only people who bring down club or country GoF. Those who dare to praise the club especially, are targets as well from the ones that like to criticise the club every chance they get. It is not a one way situation here. Normally the nastiness comes in when someone posts to disagree with a critic of the club or player and the original critic does not like it, so responds with expletives!

Just my opinion.

I totally agree Opinion.

At the end of everything, we all want East Fife to be the best we can be.

It's fine to disagree civilly but as soon as people on all sides become overly abusive in reaction to criticsm, then it serves no purpose.

I think for the next wee while, we'll start deleting posts that are overly abusive to fellow EF posters.

Disagreements are fine. Heated arguments are what football's about.

Calling your fellow Fife supporter a prick or whatever if just dumb.

Obviously we hope that people would respect the points made in this thread and therefore treat each other with respect. It's always better that than us having to continually remove posts and/or ban people.

Happily, this is almost always the case.

However, for the record, I have removed two posts from one contributor this morning. These were posted in the middle of the night i.e. nightclub chucking-out time ... so let's hope it was down to a bevvy too many and that'll be that.

We really do try hard not to ban folk - to a point.