Full Version: New Forum Rules (Sticky)
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#18]
22 Oct 2006
To: BratDawg [#17] 22 Oct 2006
It gave me a lot of thought if I should have moved those posts from the topic of your choice folder. I am still uncertain.
The folder says free threads, but it was a specific thread title wanting to be a topic. I am still unsure. I might have been overzealous because the rules were so new.
Thanks for bringing it up, I think this is a good topic for the members to indicate their preferences.
I will put up something to get the member's opinions.
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#19]
22 Oct 2006
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#18] 22 Oct 2006
I think we also need to consider, what became the primary reason for the changes in our posting policy, which was the invoking of the "S" word.
Not the four-letter one, but the name of a person who couldn't be mentioned, even in passing, without a very predictable response, from a very few forum members.
We dealt with that, not by disallowing comment on the subject, but by insisting that any further comment on the issue, take place in previous threads, where the issue was aired out at length.
The majority of forum members seem to be fine with that.
It's not that there was anything inherently wrong with our original rules and now we have wording in place, in the event of having to enforce unusually disruptive behavior.