Maybe it’s electrified and they both tried marking it?
Invisible reasons that affect so many of us. I’ve gotten caught in it too. Don’t even know if I started it! Can’t remember. Tried walking away and talking about it elsewhere later. All seems well.
It does seem like the essence of the forum has been changing, can’t put my finger on just why. We do need to all remember we’re here in support of something we all like doing, and it really is that simple.
Edit: I should add that, like myself, a great many here are going through tough times with ill health and personal issues. It would seem that we have come together here in the first place because we’ve taken on this hobby as a self healing, time of peace helper…I know that’s how I use it and I know many other’s that do the same. So it’s even more important to be compassionate and forgiving as folks deal with major issues….something this life has been throwing around in heaping helpings lately.
What I think happens all too often is that people come here after being on other forums and bring with them the same hostility they get from other sites. If they are continually attacked on other forums by trolls/haters etc, they get defensive and see attacks where none exist at all. So they get snippy and it just escalates. I know that more than once I have seen an insult where none existed and just about behaved the way I would on other forums. I have to remind myself that this forum is not about fighting at all.
Excellent point. It’s always good to give the benefit of the doubt, especially in these difficult times. As a matter of fact, that’s why one of the BLF RULES is “Have fun.” BLF should be used for fun and recreation, I think we all have enough stress and rules and laws to follow in the outside world.
What no \®¥]¡°\||< cussing Well thats just**** great! And now I can’t tell someone Im going to ¡¡\° his\^|:!! too? (——- smiley face means I’m kidding lol
I like it here, admin hats off The people here are pretty awesome!
A ’ Rants ’ sub-forum that doesn’t appear on the main page might be a good experiment. It might also serve as a place threads can be moved for “cool down”, threads that might look to be heading for deletion (but haven’t quite reach that point yet).
Hmmmmm, a Rants subforum. Not a bad idea, and it would work in some scenarios. But the thing is, I don’t want to give the impression that nasty or provocative comments are acceptable anywhere on BLF, because they aren’t. If somebody is really fired up and starting to cross the line, they usually want their comments to appear on the front page, and I don’t think they would voluntarily use the Rants subforum. And then too I wonder how many users would actually enter the Rants subforum to read the rants. I really depend on the help of our users to moderate this forum, and more eyes is always a good thing. I wouldn’t want unsavory stuff to start festering under the cover of the Rants subforum. But I dunno.
On another topic, I know chain quoting can be fun but is there a way to limit the size of a quote or only quote pics the first time(after that it’s redundant)? People sometimes seem lazy about selecting only the targeted phrase for a quote, just as I’m sometimes lazy about quoting in a response.
This is definitely something to add to a “best practices for posting” thread. If someone could create one I’d gladly make it sticky. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s a software way to enforce this, however.
(——- smiley face means I’m kidding lol
The people here are pretty awesome!
