E. Paul Austin said:
Thank you Bob! The Children need an attention getter every once in a while! Paul
Paul,
From what I observe we could have an automatic “attention getter” i.e. if there would be more than three spelling mistakes the post wouldn’t upload. 
Cale Nelson said:
My Catholic friends were always talking about this place…didn’t believe it existed
Cale, Vatican II did away with purgatory (along with Latin) back in the early 1960s! Yikes.
As far as Bob McCown bringing it back for certain “discussions,” let me just say that I’m glad Bob is old enough (sorry Bob!) to remember purgatory, and I offer my complete support as well as a big
Thank You!
for getting certain threads out of our faces…
Thank you, Bob.
Guys, can’t we just get along?
John Passaro said:
Cale, Vatican II did away with purgatory (along with Latin) back in the early 1960s! Yikes.
Actually John it did neither. BUT, as this is a railroad Forum so I will not discuss further.
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
E. Paul Austin said:
Thank you Bob! The Children need an attention getter every once in a while! Paul
Paul,
From what I observe we could have an automatic “attention getter” i.e. if there would be more than three spelling mistakes the post wouldn’t upload.
Hans, and who’s spell checker would we use? Some of us use words that our spell checkers don’t like.
David,
That wouldn’t be a problem, most of us now how to spell colour as color.
OTOH there is the other variant, just like one can’t start a thread without a title, there could be a required word count as a minimum in a post. They do that in reviews and such.
Would eliminate crawling insects, annoying, lonely punctuation marks and similar BS.
I tend to spell things different, depends on what jungle I am in, to keep the native tribe happy.
A minimum sentence length as a basic literacy test might be OK but sometimes a picture tells a thousand words and just an ‘OK’ or ‘Thank you’ is all that is typed.
A histrionic personality filter would be difficult to implement…
Andrew
Lou Luczu said:
Thank you, Bob.
Guys, can’t we just get along?
Lou,
Most of us DO get along. Bob knows how to weed out the rotten apples. It’s a shame he has to, but he does it as required.
@Bob,
Thank you.
I’m not sure of the final stages of the topic before it was cast into ‘Pergatory’ but there are individuals that have strong and perhaps very correct opinions that become the target. Composure is lost, egos are hurt and the raptors win…
You’ve got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run
It is just a hobby. it’s meant to be fun!
Andrew
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
David,
That wouldn’t be a problem, most of us now how to spell colour as color.
OTOH there is the other variant, just like one can’t start a thread without a title, there could be a required word count as a minimum in a post. They do that in reviews and such.
Would eliminate crawling insects, annoying, lonely punctuation marks and similar BS.
Do mean stuff like this?
Or this BS?
Wow …check it out a model train ^^^^^^^^^
You must not have meant… We “Now How” to spell colour as color
“now” we do though…thank youQ!
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
David,
That wouldn’t be a problem, most of us now how to spell colour as color.
OTOH there is the other variant, just like one can’t start a thread without a title, there could be a required word count as a minimum in a post. They do that in reviews and such.
Would eliminate crawling insects, annoying, lonely punctuation marks and similar BS.
But Hans, I do spell colour “colour”, and tyre as tyre, and Yunz as Yunz, and such. And sometimes a simple thank you is all that is needed.
Although I do have to agree, that just posting a bug isn’t a truly valuable nor needed post, some people just have to chime in when even they know that have nothing valuable to say. You start passing too many “rules” and the fun goes away. And like I told my boss, “If it aint fun, I’m not goin’ to do it.” I am still perplexed that he gave me a really strange look when I told him that. Oh well.
The majority of posts I make on fora are on the three well known ones which are American based. Most of my a-mails are to American friends, so I use the America spell checker.
O course when my response is to UK domiciled folks I spell the way I was taught and ignore the red squiggly lines.
David Russell said:
Or this BS?
Wow …check it out a model train ^^^^^^^^^
Ok, I soo need a BS engine
I was convinced you already had one 
Sometimes it’s triple header BS hauling the acrimony express!
Andrew