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. Itās always good to give the benefit of the doubt, especially in these difficult times. As a matter of fact, thatās why one of the BLF RULES is āHave fun.ā 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 \Ā®Ā„]Ā”Ā°\||< cussing Well thats just**** great! And now I canāt tell someone Im going to Ā”Ā”\Ā° his\^|:!! too? (āā- smiley face means Iām kidding lol
I like it here, admin hats off The people here are pretty awesome!
A ā Rants ā sub-forum that doesnāt appear on the main page might be a good experiment. It might also serve as a place threads can be moved for ācool downā, threads that might look to be heading for deletion (but havenāt 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 donāt want to give the impression that nasty or provocative comments are acceptable anywhere on BLF, because they arenāt. 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 donāt 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 wouldnāt 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 itās redundant)? People sometimes seem lazy about selecting only the targeted phrase for a quote, just as Iām sometimes lazy about quoting in a response.
This is definitely something to add to a ābest practices for postingā thread. If someone could create one Iād gladly make it sticky. Unfortunately I donāt think thereās a software way to enforce this, however.
Was this related to the fenix light or the bribe part or both? I guess its nature for people to argue with other people for the sake of self interest or self satisfaction. Freedom of speech is good but is sometimes used to have the freedom of hurting people
(āā- smiley face means Iām kidding lol
The people here are pretty awesome!
