iuventus said:

Carpy,

My question was laced with no attitude at all; nor was it a response to your statement(s), but to the seeming presumptions of others that that's what your job is. I presumed that your intention wasn't to censor, but I wasn't quite clear on it because of what others were saying. And, no, you weren't 'quite clear.' Otherwise I wouldn't have asked.

Whatever you may think of me, please don't read into my words so negatively, and respond so dramatically, without questioning me first. It wouldn't be fair to label me the next reason you "take a break" from the forums. That just leads to that old familiar mob mentality.

I didn't mean it as threat or otherwise - if I jumped at you, Juv, it wasn't my intention and I'm happy to apologise. I'm sat work at the mo and had popped on to clear the spam etc and I guess I was just amazed and a little disappointed that the very first thing people are bringing up within 30mins of us getting any rights at all is to confirm we're not going to censor people or views. Is that really what people expected the pair of us to do?

I even tried to make that point to save any worries on my post above about NOT doing anything major and even checking the odds'n'ends with folks personally first.

The one thing  I've always tried to be on here is approachable - even if I don't agree with somebody I'd rather have a natter about it than go mad at them and this is absolutely no different.

On a side note, the previous break thing was when this place collided with personal stuff and something had to give. I wasn't in a good place but I don't really want to discuss that on here really. Hope you understand on that front?

By all means drop me a PM if you want a natter further, mmm'kay? As said before, that goes for anybody!

Halloween_Jack said:

Not sure just what we can do yet... hopefully we should be able to put right a few of the shortfalls people have been listing... as well as, of course, deleting spam & moving oddly-located threads.

Just to clarify - I was not talking about censoring. This board and its ancestor have always been open to any and all opinions, and that is a part of what makes it so compelling.

I'm glad that our mods are so open :)

cake for everyone!!

^
Can you change my forum name back to Hells Bells please. If this can't be done your chocolate cake is going straight in the bin :>

Halloween_Jack said:

If anyone is interested, it seems we have the following options regarding threads:

• Edit (obviously this one allows a title change, and/or a switch of "category")
• Announce (not sure what this does?)
• Sink (or this?)
• Close
• Delete

Oh, and it looks like we can delete individual posts. I guess that is something we could do to tidy up posts that have been clearly marked as "content removed", "to be deleted" or similar. What do people think?

cool. id go as far as suggesting a discussion about house rules, but this wouldn't be in the interests of anarchy ;)

.......phew , thank fuck I didn`t mention the dirty fork  :ar!

Sartori said:

.......phew , thank fuck I didn`t mention the dirty fork  :ar!

I bloomin' love that sketch! =D>

tweety said:

The_Carpathian said:

House rules, tweety?

1) Don't be crappy to others.

2) Virtual cake all round. It's just over there - look!

3) Spam should stay in the can in was supplied in.

I'd honestly hope those three could/would/should cover anything (especially the cake one).

I would certainly buy into that, I fear for a row about rule one and the definition of crappy,

Just cake & spam then? :D