More Pool fans blocked by the club on Twitter/X

Lytham_fy8 said:
They're lucky they don't act like this in public or they'd constantly be getting sparked out. A block on Twitter, blimey, what a life changing tragedy.

One day they might grow up and realise how real, godawful and heartbreaking life can be without inventing shit like this.
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Amen to your second para 👌
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
They're lucky they don't act like this in public or they'd constantly be getting sparked out. A block on Twitter, blimey, what a life changing tragedy.

One day they might grow up and realise how real, godawful and heartbreaking life can be without inventing shit like this.
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Sorry but the bit about being sparked out is rubbish. I sit near one of these guys at the game and know he's like this most of the time and no one says anything about it.
 
Briggs5 said:
Some good points above.

I just think the club have made this a bigger deal than it needed to be by blocking instead of muting.
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Maybe. Maybe it started with a legit block and has become a trigger happy Admin. Who knows.

I just didn't realise that SS personally managed the social media channels... Or that's how it's coming across by some
 
voyeur said:
They have every right to block if that's what they want to do. If people behaved like civilised human beings they wouldn't be blocked so the onus is on them to behave in a decent manner.
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Having been in the pub business most of my life, I can tell you that there are quite a lot of people who don’t behave like civilised human beings, and my experience was more or less, before the explosion of social media. God help us.
 
SMB_BFC said:
Rightly or wrongly, a few accounts have been blocked. Okay. fine.
On the back of that you get more twitter users getting angry and chiming in on the blocking of users, making more comments on official posts, @'ing the club and now directing it all at Simon.

I've seen a few posts pointing fingers with choice language at individuals now. It's gone from calling the performance on Tuesday wank (rightly so) to telling Simon to fuck off back to Hong Kong.. (just one example)
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The trouble is, whoever owns the club, whoever is the first team manager, whoever is head of comms etc etc, someone will moan about them, if things aren’t going as they expect.
Some of the stuff that people are coming out with in terms of how the club is being run is unbelievable!
 
SomersetSeasider said:
The trouble is, whoever owns the club, whoever is the first team manager, whoever is head of comms etc etc, someone will moan about them, if things aren’t going as they expect.
Some of the stuff that people are coming out with in terms of how the club is being run is unbelievable!
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It's fine to moan, its bloody expected, and it happens for the most part, pretty civilised.
But it gets taken too far by some. and then it gets jumped on, with others repeating the same actions, as though it's a badge of honor to batter the club over the head with.
 
One thing this is showing me is how diffrent platforms are reacting and how diffrent platforms attract diffrent groups. Here, there's alot in favour of the club and a few that aren't. Twitter is largely fuming and raging at the club. FB are in their own bubble and IG is mixed. Been interesting to see.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
They're lucky they don't act like this in public or they'd constantly be getting sparked out. A block on Twitter, blimey, what a life changing tragedy.

One day they might grow up and realise how real, godawful and heartbreaking life can be without inventing shit like this.
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I know… the feeling I had inside when I didn’t get my Airfryer was truly heartbreaking….
 
Amuses me when people whinge about being banned on any public forum - 99% never do and so maybe that 1% need to look at their tone, what they write and what they say. There are ways to express yourself articulately and intelligently without needing to use endless expletives, insults and an aggressive tone. Why should the club have to listen to that?
 
Toastrack said:
Can you imagine the outcry if the club used social media to tell a fan to go fuck themself?
Works both ways, the club's X account isn't there to be addressed like some online Aunt Sally.
And it seems to be more than one or two posts.
The statement via the Gazette talks of the level of abuse directed at "certain members of the playing squad, management team and staff."

I don't blame the club for reacting as they did.
If stuff like this isn't nipped in the bud, it escalates.
Don't forget that Mansford had death threats sent to him not so long ago.
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The guy in charge when Oyston was here didn’t hold back
 

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Looking at some of the drivel on here, I'm beginning to think there's a special offer on AVFTT today . . . A free tin foil hat with every post
 
Communication again or lack of it. Put out a statement immediately after the banning and explain why. They probably deserve it but unless we are informed we don't know.
 
The people who are blocked all seem to be a certain type. In other words, I’ll say what I want to you no matter how personal and vile it might be but then I’ll go crying to anyone who’ll listen when I’m told that the recipient of the shit isn’t putting up with it. The club hasn’t had much of a choice here - muting won’t take those comments off a thread on X
 
So foul and abusive language on twitter to the clubs account with some directed at employees of the club. The club bans the offender or offenders. OK.
The only story here is that the person who was doing the tweeting is trying to pass blame onto the club rather than looking at themselves in the mirror and maybe re evaluating their life.
Club is absolutely correct in doing this.
It's a business who has a duty of care to its employees. There are ways to vent and that wasn't it.
 
FY16JJ said:
Amuses me when people whinge about being banned on any public forum - 99% never do and so maybe that 1% need to look at their tone, what they write and what they say. There are ways to express yourself articulately and intelligently without needing to use endless expletives, insults and an aggressive tone. Why should the club have to listen to that?
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If you don’t like the owner or how he runs things -say it in an articulate way. If you tell him to fuck off back to Hong Kong then you deserve everything you get
 
There may be lower level PKE fans piling on and joining in. If you can't be distinguished from an arsehole PKE fan you are probably doing something wrong!
 
fcblackpool said:
I think that as this is not being dealt with in an even handed manner perhaps @hertfordseasider is correct.

Wouldn't you just contact the offender and tell them being critical is fine but cut out the language and direct insults. perhaps they have done, dunno.
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My understanding mate is that this has been done, on more than one occasion.

I get it that calling a performance WANK isn't the worst thing, but in effect a yellow card for previous stuff has been turned to a red for the lad
 
Ockers said:
My understanding mate is that this has been done, on more than one occasion.

I get it that calling a performance WANK isn't the worst thing, but in effect a yellow card for previous stuff has been turned to a red for the lad
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Wasn't just calling them wank though...
Looks like it then carried on to call them Nobheads, and telling SS to fuck off back to Hong Kong. (can't confirm if that was before/after the block.. and on the same post)
 
Ockers said:
My understanding mate is that this has been done, on more than one occasion.

I get it that calling a performance WANK isn't the worst thing, but in effect a yellow card for previous stuff has been turned to a red for the lad
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Fair enough. Then the guy should be banned from the platform completely if he can't use it responsibly.

Have the Club explained this on the platform, not a stupid Club Statement on the OS?
 
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voyeur said:
They have every right to block if that's what they want to do. If people behaved like civilised human beings they wouldn't be blocked so the onus is on them to behave in a decent manner.
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You're right, but knowing our history with owners, blocking rather than muting was always going to create a big drama. But absolutely, nobody should be abusive, especially calling a bloke who's put in millions of pounds into the club a cnut.
 
When I was on Twitter I would constantly tweet at them that the team made me want to kill myself, that I hated them, wanted players to be binned off, that performances were disgraceful, etc and they never blocked me LMAO.

I did however see them block people who took things too far.

Have no doubt that’s the case here.
 
Briggs5 said:
You're right, but knowing our history with owners, blocking rather than muting was always going to create a big drama. But absolutely, nobody should be abusive, especially calling a bloke who's put in millions of pounds into the club a cnut.
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I really don't think the history has anything to do with it really. There's a small number of so called supporters who think that they can justify completely unacceptable behaviour by assimilating this kind of ban to the historic suing of fans. Muting, rather than Blocking doesn't stand up to this poor behaviour or seek to address it properly.... You're suggesting that it's better to just ignore this kind of shitty behaviour and rather than take a stand against it, you should just take the cowardly root of least resistance instead so as not to cause a stir...

Nah.... It shit behaviour like this needs to be challenged head on and dealt with... simple as that... The lad is at fault, not the Club
 
FY16JJ said:
Amuses me when people whinge about being banned on any public forum - 99% never do and so maybe that 1% need to look at their tone, what they write and what they say. There are ways to express yourself articulately and intelligently without needing to use endless expletives, insults and an aggressive tone. Why should the club have to listen to that?
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If you don’t like the owner
AmericanTangerine said:
When I was on Twitter I would constantly tweet at them that the team made me want to kill myself, that I hated them, wanted players to be binned off, that performances were disgraceful, etc and they never blocked me LMAO.

I did however see them block people who took things too far.

Have no doubt that’s the case here.
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why did you tweet such weird stuff??
 
SMB_BFC said:
Wasn't just calling them wank though...
Looks like it then carried on to call them Nobheads, and telling SS to fuck off back to Hong Kong. (can't confirm if that was before/after the block.. and on the same post)
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Yeah. There's a lot more to it (hence the curly finger off the club and ultimate 'Blocking'

Mind you. Its a Blocking on a social media account. Jesus, people are getting killed around rhe world and this is today's big topic
 
F**k Around & Find out. Springs to mind. People should be held more accountable for the stuff they put on Social Media. I get people are upset but the way they word it isn’t suitable for a clubs account. There’s criticism and there’s abusive language. People should be more careful what they write and who could potentially view it. Actions have consequences
 
Fr33jack said:
If every other word is a curse word then I’d ban them. I don’t want my young ones reading it and thinking it’s ok. My late father told me many times growing up and as an adult “only uneducated people use swear words because their vocabulary is so low”
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I don't have kids but if I did I wouldn't allow them anywhere near social media. A few swear words is the least of your worries if you let your young ones access X and the likes.
 
I think it really does depend on what those who have been blocked have said. Some do nothing other than rant at the owner, club, players, manager and offer nothing positive. Criticism is fine but there has been way too much stuff that has gone personal. It's all a storm in a teacup, anyone who gets overly worked up about anything on social media, probably need to repriortise their lives.
 
NewburyOne said:
I don't have kids but if I did I wouldn't allow them anywhere near social media. A few swear words is the least of your worries if you let your young ones access X and the likes.
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It was a generalisation of children. My 17 year old is still classed as a child and as such her online activity is still monitored. I’m a network engineer and online safety is always forefront for all my kids no matter what age. You cannot hide them from everything but I do my best as a parent to protect them. The only reason I replied is it seemed my parenting skills where under fire.

My original point was and I should of been more specific is criticism is acceptable even with swear words and the club should accept that and not just ban everyone, but I expect to ban anyone who’s vitriol is tainted with such venom as it’s near criminal in affect.
 

In a statement, they wrote: “The decision to block these individuals on the club’s social media channels was not one taken lightly, but was a necessary move given the level of abuse directed at certain members of the playing squad, management team and staff.

Blackpool Football Club has a strict zero-tolerance policy towards abuse of all kinds and fully condemns the conduct of anyone who subjects others to any form of abuse, as per the club’s Customer Charter.

Whilst the club fully understands that criticism is part and parcel of the game, the disgraceful abuse received from a minority of individuals over recent weeks has been wholly unacceptable.

“All members of staff at the club - both football and non-football - are working tirelessly to ensure every supporter has a club they can be proud of. However, the club has a duty of care to all members of staff, and takes the mental wellbeing of all employees extremely seriously.”

The Blackpool Gazette also understands the club opted to block one account following a number of warnings over abusive messages sent to individuals, alongside verbal and physical altercations in the ground.
 
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NewburyOne said:
I don't have kids but if I did I wouldn't allow them anywhere near social media. A few swear words is the least of your worries if you let your young ones access X and the likes.
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I think 'I don't have kids' probably sums up your lack of understanding mate... 'Not letting them anywhere near Social Media' is a lovely idea, but it's not remotely practical or realistic in 2024.
 
Can someone please point me in the direction of one of the tweets that has caused someone to be blocked by the club ?
I’d like to see if the club are being pathetic or if people are genuinely being vile, cheers.
 
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