Well that's a shame. CR now has guest under her name which means she's gone. Now I don't believe Celtic fans, as people, are better than any other fan. We have arseholes and racists and all kinds of idiots amongst our numbers but as a group I believe we are a lot more tolerant and open than most.
That's why, when we criticise players and managers or have hard words to say about cunts like Goram and Bell, I don't go for the whole "we are Celtic fans we are better than that mantra".....cause we arent really. We are just normal people. But to chase one of our own fans from a forum, that she obviously felt a connection to and enjoyed, because she had different views is quite sad, IMO. By all means we should be able to disagree....but the abuse of our own fans has to stop on here. I'm not a snowflake that hates swearing....but no one wants to be called a cunt or anything else for simply not sharing someone's else's view.
Maybe in future, as a collective on here, if we think one of our friends and members is going a bit to far we should step in and ask them to take a wee step back. A wee PM maybe....
Now I might be completely wrong and if I am and he reads this he can correct me, but I believe Larry may have taken a step back due to some of the stuff on here. He found Celtic and felt a connection to them due to what the club stands for. Tolerant and open....and I'm sure when he read some stuff on here he may not have recognised the club he believed he had found. And for CR, who I didn't know very well at all, to come here to feel a closer connection to the thing her husband Pat (so sorry if I'm wrong) loved so much to then have to leave due to being abused is so wrong.
Aye it's a crying shame lubo and I agree , said so earlier that we can help one another with a simple PM saying that was harsh etc.
I agree with your generalization about clubs and their fans including ours, though on this forum I have seen many posts of sympathy for others in pain and distress notably for old and newco club players who have suffered loss. That's something you dont get on many other spaces like this.
This is a pretty tight nit forum, though not as tight as I may have believed and I include myself as I wasn't recognising what was going on.
If we can be civilised enough for those outside of this forum community we should be able to be more so for our own and look out for one another.
Sometimes I have seen disagreements , been part of them as well and I've just put it down to a bit of banter that will be moved on from and quickly forgotten and so I've skipped on through many of these posts. Failing to see where it's gone overboard as a result.
No one can be expected to read everything , and the majority of us have never met and know not of each others background, sense of humour, life.
We can help one another though.
It's a sad lesson this is , one I wont forget.
The noise's general chat section suffered from the pandemic, lockdown, Ukraine etc when there was no football to speak of.
Collectively we have the ability to call out anything , subtly by PM or publically if that's ignored and back it when it's called out but not in a Witch hunt style.
This is a great forum and I would sorely miss it.
I think we can all learn lessons from this myself included and just be a little bit nicer and if a joke is misread then say it was a joke, apologise publicly, not difficult.
No one has to change character but the best solution is to keep things Celtic and football related.
Some people are more passionate than others but calling people huns when it's well known they're not should be a strikable offence , 2 and you're sin binned at least. Perhaps suspended from posting .
We make the forum, we can make it stay the best .
I'll get aff the soap box noo.