Yeah I dont really want to go through the work of signing up only to get more spam in my email and post about one thing. Here is better!!!
Steve Featherkile said:the extra "stuff" im talking about is the personal attacks, or the constant and intentional thread derailing by people taking advantage of the lax rules that I have here. When the inmates are running the assylum, its time for some rule changes. I do not need the extra aggravation policing posts by people who wouldt behave the same way they do on the forums if we were all acually sitting in the same room together. You may think personal attacks and thread-$hitting is entertaining, but I dont. You can keep quoting things Ive said in the past, but thats past. Rules are changing. Everyone needs to tone it down a notch or three and THINK about what they are posting. Ive bannec exactly TWO people in the 12 years Ive run this site. That number can quickly get to 8 if things dont change NOW. My patience is at an end. I dont mind asking people to take it down a hair every few months or so. Ive had to three times in the last month. That tears it.Bob McCown said:Bob, surely you realize that it is the noise that makes this place special. Each time you try to reduce the noise to signal ratio factor, you diminish the value of this "publick house."
Look at the signal to noise ratio in this thread vs the bachmann thread. Most of the points about what to build have been expressed in both threads, but the Bachmann one doesnt have all the extra "stuff".As you said in you post about the forums…
Bob McCown said:I don't post on Bachmann or Aristocraft, because neither has the "extra 'stuff.'" If you insist on taking away the "extra stuff" from here, too...
Since LSC's inception almost five years ago, I've considered chat and the forums as a "virtual living room" or, more accurately, a "Publick House", with me being the bartender, with an absentee owner. Imagine you've come in, sat down at the bar, and started talking about trains. People may or may not join your conversation, as they see fit. If you start being obnoxious, some people may join, but you'll get lots of stares from other people in the pub. I may even ask you to keep it down, but I rarely kick anyone out.
You can quote my rules back at me again ( youve done it before whe I told people to calm down ) if you want to, but Im done being nice. This applies to everybody. Nobody is immune