Respect

[ZRH]

Did you get your snowshoes?

Yup. Overnight mail is AWESOME.

 

[JAXvillain]

Yup. Overnight mail is AWESOME.

did they arrive via sled dog team?

 

[ZRH]

did they arrive via sled dog team?

Fed Ex Sat Express. They actually got here before I woke up @ 9am. Just waiting on the front porch. I was shocked. The mail hasnt even come in three days.

 

[Shalimar]

Fed Ex Sat Express. They actually got here before I woke up @ 9am. Just waiting on the front porch. I was shocked. The mail hasnt even come in three days.

damn son.. move.

 

[Bubbles]

Good post. I completely agree with all of your points and applaud you on your insight.


Also,

 

[ZRH]

damn son.. move.

I like inclement weather.

Now, there is a snowshoe path to the mailbox AND the outbuildings.

 

[Candy]

I never visited the mass debate forum, so that's why I didn't miss it when it disappeared. However, I fail to see the reasoning behind getting rid of it if the people who did visit got what they needed out of it. I understand not wanting serious threads spammed, and I can see how a discussion thread (even if not serious) can be annoying when it's thrown off topic.

But that's what I like about this place.....out of nowhere you get slammed with the most random, stupid, funny, sometimes offensive comments. How can you not laugh at that?

The majority of the participating members that were here last time we had a forum uprising are still the majority now. We did not like the very serious way this place was being governed, and we are having fun with the slightly out of control insanity that has replaced it. A few isolated incidents do not call for a forum overhaul......and remember, you can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please ALL the people ALL the time.

I will now go back to my pseudo-silent prowling on the edges.....carry on and play nice :smooch:

Very nicely said.

We are all adults here *cough* and should be able to voice opinions without being ridiculed, banned, etc. etc. Shawn and I both post on another board where the rules are odvious - be courteous to each other and if you don't like a topic - don't open it! There is never people on power trips, being banned... it's really very silly that a few can get so worked up over literally nothing.

This is a nice place to waste time!

 

[simple]

I think we need more elpmis to balance the place out. He's the dried jism that holds this place together.

i've been called a lot of things, but this may be the first 'dried jism'

 

[wanko80]

i've been called a lot of things, but this may be the first 'dried jism'

You're welcome.

 

[Dharma1521]

i've been called a lot of things, but this may be the first 'dried jism'

And it won't be the last.

 

[APRIL]

And it won't be the last.

It's funny because it's like you have him in your hair.

 

[fly]

It's funny because it's like you have him in your hair.

I know I still do.

 

[kiwi]

I know I still do.

Yea, that's probably never coming out.

 

[Pandora]

Very nicely said.

We are all adults here *cough* and should be able to voice opinions without being ridiculed, banned, etc. etc. Shawn and I both post on another board where the rules are odvious - be courteous to each other and if you don't like a topic - don't open it! There is never people on power trips, being banned... it's really very silly that a few can get so worked up over literally nothing.

This is a nice place to waste time!

Define "be courteous". Does being courteous include spamming and derailing a thread that should be on topic (per the author or the rules)? Does being courteous include name calling and harassing? Perhaps in your world it is, but not in mine. If power tripping is a bigger problem to you then THAT's pretty silly. Perhaps these forums and the people on them mean so little to you that you just waste time here, but I prefer to use my time a little more constructively and at one time I actually valued the people here. And I don't see why everyone should have to conform to your silly wasteful standard. It's possible to find a happy medium rather than forcing the entire forum to be either or....however that would require some to be a little more respectful of others and the rules. Apparently that is too much to ask for.

 

[APRIL]

Define "be courteous". Does being courteous include spamming and derailing a thread that should be on topic (per the author or the rules)? Does being courteous include name calling and harassing? Perhaps in your world it is, but not in mine. If power tripping is a bigger problem to you then THAT's pretty silly. Perhaps these forums and the people on them mean so little to you that you just waste time here, but I prefer to use my time a little more constructively and at one time I actually valued the people here. And I don't see why everyone should have to conform to your silly wasteful standard. It's possible to find a happy medium rather than forcing the entire forum to be either or....however that would require some to be a little more respectful of others and the rules. Apparently that is too much to ask for.

I don't see anything wrong with the forum.



[runs and hides]

 

[water]

Define "be courteous". Does being courteous include spamming and derailing a thread that should be on topic (per the author or the rules)? Does being courteous include name calling and harassing? Perhaps in your world it is, but not in mine. If power tripping is a bigger problem to you then THAT's pretty silly. Perhaps these forums and the people on them mean so little to you that you just waste time here, but I prefer to use my time a little more constructively and at one time I actually valued the people here. And I don't see why everyone should have to conform to your silly wasteful standard. It's possible to find a happy medium rather than forcing the entire forum to be either or....however that would require some to be a little more respectful of others and the rules. Apparently that is too much to ask for.

The solution is to create a seperate forum called "On Topic Only" and let threads that are created there follow the associated rules. Useless Chatter should be left entirely alone however.

 

[Sarcasmo]

The solution is to create a seperate forum called "On Topic Only" and let threads that are created there follow the associated rules. Useless Chatter should be left entirely alone however.

The further solution is to not eventually remove that "On Topic" forum.

 

[water]

The further solution is to not eventually remove that "On Topic" forum.

My purpose of suggesting that was to ultimately prove a point. If we created an OT forum 5 people would post in it on a regular basis, if that. It would dwindle to nothing, become a waste of space, and get removed.

The majority of the people here do not want more strict regulations on what they can post and where.

 

[APRIL]

The further solution is to not eventually remove that "On Topic" forum.

It wasn't a popular forum so it was removed. It wasn't popular there nor will it be in this forum by majority, so why are we all fighting again?

 

[Pandora]

It wasn't a popular forum so it was removed. Therefore majority rules on the rules in this forum.

It was popular enough until certain members began trolling it. If I remember correctly we even attracted a few new members with it who did post in there. Just because some of our members have the attention span of a 2 year old doesn't mean everyone does.