Decorum please people.

[rod1949]

This probably relates to my post yesterday. My appologies if it was taken as offensive as none was intended. I thought it was just factual.

Cheers

Rod

[Wood Butcher]

Fair enough about the "comments". I just wonder who decides when something gets too stupid? Guess that would be you guys! As long as it's not some crusty old phart who takes life too seriously, I can handle it

In this case it is was a consensus, not one mod acting on their own.

I can guarantee that there are no "crusty old pharts" in these ranks and all of us love a joke as much as anyone!

[RETIRED]

Would that include the people who complained about it? Just wondering

Nope.

[Wongo]

Thanks guys, thanks a lot and you know who you are.:mad:

The Friday thread was created for some of us to have some fun on Friday. We even gave away useful WW tools to each other. What's wrong with that?

Did I say keep it pure?:mad:

[Felder]

Would that include the people who complained about it? Just wondering

That was my line of thinking.....

There are no woodworking posts in OS, so people that go therew aren't looking for woodworking info.

Only problem is it may encourage folks to be a bit wude...:eek:

[Eddie Jones]

.....where the moderators have their stuck up the arses and anything at all not related to woodwork disappears......

Seems the "banned words detector" isn't turned on for moderators.

Methinks some double standards going on here!

[Wood Butcher]

This probably relates to my post yesterday. My appologies if it was taken as offensive as none was intended. I thought it was just factual.

Cheers

Rod

What post?:confused:

[Wood Butcher]

Seems the "banned words detector" isn't turned on for moderators.

Methinks some double standards going on here!

The censor works for everyone!:mad: Even the admins.

The are no double standards here!:mad:

[RETIRED]

Seems the "banned words detector" isn't turned on for moderators.

Methinks some double standards going on here!

The "banned word detector" works for us as well. Which sometimes is just as well.

[RETIRED]

This probably relates to my post yesterday. My appologies if it was taken as offensive as none was intended. I thought it was just factual.

Cheers

Rod

No rod. just moved it to the appropriate forum.

[silentC]

I can guarantee that there are no "crusty old pharts" in these ranks and all of us love a joke as much as anyone!

Sorry, what I meant was that things were being stopped because some crusty old phart was complaining to you. I would never accuse the mods of being crusty

[Ivan in Oz]

G'Day you lot,

Are the 'Boundaries' we have, self imposed by the [General] Majority;
or are the Mods. having to reel some of us in, often?

I am on the ECCA BMW Forum; and it is often WAY over the top.
Makes me look like a real Stick in the Mud:confused:

[Bob38S]

If I have managed to cause offence to either He's or She's please accept this as my apology.
I enjoy this forum and check it out most days and yes have been known to make comments - mostly I try to be helpful - I appreciate that perhaps sometimes my sense of humour may leave some wondering.
No offence[s] intended.
Bob

[silentC]

For ####'s sake what has the world come to that people are apologising for having a sense of humour? We need more of it, not less. Too much serious crap in the world as it is. Watched a show on the ABC last night about "the falling man" - a photograph of a guy who jumped or fell out of one of the towers at the World Trade centre.

We have one of these every 6 months or so. Someone gets their nose out of joint over something and has a whinge about it, either openly or whispered in the ear of a mod. It'll all be forgotten by next week.

[Stuart]

The "banned word detector" works for us as well. Which sometimes is just as well.

I rely on it

As to moderation, when a thread looses its way, sometimes it is a lot easier and less work to shut the whole thing down, than to weed out the problems. Some here are 'apologising' for their posts, that probably had nothing to do with the thread being closed. There was a lot of mess to clean up, in more than 1 thread, and for different reasons, some minor, some very serious.

End of the day, like it or not, this is a community, and the mods are trying to keep a balance so the vast majority can enjoy being here for whatever they are looking for.