Gentlemen, we really do try to rule with a gentle hand. Part of our TOS are that we do NOT talk politics on this board, period. Everyone should know this by now. Yet, I just had to delete 4 posts that were blatantly political in nature and had nothing to do with the thread.
Please refrain from posting anything that even comes close to something political. In this thread or any other for that matter. This is not up for debate.
Tom
<Sarc> but funny !
We need a <sarc> emoji - that might save some gnashing.
As for their own system threads, people can moderate those themselves. I personally have let some tangential discussions run on my thread over a good number of posts before politely intervening. Others may have less patience, and they can moderate their system thread accordingly, as you also seem to imply.
Members, I think, cannot delete other members' posts. So on member system threads we grant member requests to delete posts on their system threads which they feel are off-topic.
Ron, we are all supposed to be grown-up men.
Why can't members themselves politely ask others to, at some appropriate point, stop off-topic posts? That is what I did at times (while at other times I simply let the discussion run out), and it worked.
Of course, if the member makes highly provocative statements in his thread, he should not act surprised that the thread gets hugely derailed.
Running to the moderators as "mommy" seems not the most grown-up thing to do, and I am quite certain that you guys don't enjoy playing such a role either.
Ron, we are all supposed to be grown-up men.
Why can't members themselves politely ask others to, at some appropriate point, stop off-topic posts? That is what I did at times (while at other times I simply let the discussion run out), and it worked.
Of course, if the member makes highly provocative statements in his thread, he should not act surprised that the thread gets hugely derailed.
Running to the moderators as "mommy" seems not the most grown-up thing to do, and I am quite certain that you guys don't enjoy playing such a role either.
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