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Do Not Feed The Trolls

Troll (noun) someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community and likes to hide behind the anonymity of the internet.

Dear Trolls,

Please note, this site is run by only one person. However, I closely monitor ALL messages and comments. Please do not be fooled into thinking that you will be allowed to post your bile on this site.

While I appreciate that Michael Sheen is not to everyone’s taste, is there really so little happening in your life that you need to hunt down a fansite dedicated to him to critique his work. I would not even mind if it had been constructive criticism, but it wasn’t.

I am a huge and long time Michael Sheen, and I have seen pretty much everything he has done, but I am not so blinded by adoration to like everything . His back catalogue is so varied that there was bound to be something I don’t like.  I get it – there are somethings he has done that you don’t like either, but leaving a comment that was deliberately inflammatory was quite unnecessary.

The old adage “if you have not got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” applies here.

I operate a strict no tolerance on internet Trolls, so please go back to hiding under your bridge. Your comments will be blocked, your email blacklisted, and the Morrigan will be informed.

Just to let you all know that I am changing the Twitter name for this site.  It is changing from @Sheenfansite to @MSheenfansite.

The addition of the M at the beginning will hopefully disuade people of the fact that this is a Charlie Sheen fansite (real name Carlos Estévez).  In my book – there is only one Sheen worth following, and that is the real Sheen, Mr Michael Sheen.

If you currently follow the site on Twitter, then there is no need to change anything, or re-follow us as you will automatically remain a follower.  I would very much appreciate it if you could send a tweet out to your followers just so that we can spread the word of the new account name.

The guys and gals at my host company have been working their magic over the last 24 hours, and we are almost there. As i said previously, the forum, Gallery, and the Newsdesk are all working fine.

The site is almost completely back up – there are just a few more gremlins to hunt down.

You may notice that some of the internal links on the main site are not working – I am aware of this, and this will be rectified as soon as possible I asure you.

Thank you all for your support, and I beg your continued patience.

One thing that I have decided after this whole saga, is that I am going to migrate the site from its current Content Management System, to WordPress, which is what this Newsdesk is brought to you buy.

It may mean a loss of a few features, but on the whole, we should be able to offer you the same quality and quantity of information.

Dear All

I just thought I had better give you an update on the main site. There has been a serious technical problem with the Content Management System, which I was unable to resolve myself. My hosting company are trying their best to see if they can do something,  but they may have restore to an older version of the site, but it will take a few days at least before we know.

Failing that… actually, I dont want to think about what I will have to do if this doesnt work *sobs*

In the meantime, I can reassure you that I will continue to make updates to this Newsdesk, as and when they happen, and you can also still browse the Gallery HERE and Forum users can still access the Forum HERE.

Thank you for your patience.

Madnad

If you have not done so already, get yourself over to our Festive message page, where you can leave a short and sweet message to Michael for the festive season.

Please ensure that you leave your comment by 4PM (GMT) Friday 17th December in order for me to have enough time to prepare the printout and get it in the post.  So get posting, the more the merrier.
*All messages will of course be moderated before publishing, so please keep it clean and PG13.

Please click on the button below to take you to the page.

Have you bought a calendar for 2011 yet? Have you been scouring the stores for a Michael Sheen one, only to find that there isn’t any? Well … look no further!

M-S.co.uk headquarters have produced a fine calendar (in PDF format) for you to download and print at home (or the office!). It can be found on the Downloads page in Fans Corner, or you can press the button below.

It is 100% free and there is absolutely no charge but if I could kindly ask that in return for downloading this calendar, and all the other downloads this site offers, you make a small donation of £2 / $3 / €2,5, or whatever you can afford to the newly created JustGiving.com page at

http://www.justgiving.com/michael-sheen-co-uk

All money collected goes directly to the NSPCC, of which Michael Sheen is their official ‘hero’, and he does the voice over for the TV campaign.

You may, or may not, also know that we have links to relevant Amazon products on all our project pages.  There are links to Amazon UK, US, DE and FR.  I will shortly be adding links to Amazon IT too shortly.

If you intend on buying anything from Amazon, please click through from these links! It is very important you do, so that the site can receive a small commission, which will be added to the JustGiving total.

The Amazon commission for the first 3 quarters of 2010 has now been sent to JustGiving. Information on how much the site has collected, and other ways you can help – please see the Charity Page here <<link>>

*UK Members – please dont forget to tick the option for GiftAid. GiftAid is an option for UK Tax Payers to allow charities to claim an additional 28p for every pound you donate, from the Government.