This forum is one of the few left which has not castrated its users with a myriad of rules and restrictions. But the price of that are the unexpected attacks by those who hope to knife you without being noticed by the mods. I know how to take the good with the bad, which probably explains why I'm here.
Been participating on Forums since the first or second one emerged out of MIT and DARPA. Moderate one. REally love a well moderated forum. But I also like that there is a subforum where you can see multiple sides of an issue discussed in a rough and ready fashion. I don't like it when things get personal.I don't like it when comments are inserted in the cartoons or memes or links threads though. You take the good with the bad.
and is probably less moderated because there's only one (overworked) moderator. in another car forum i am on, if you bring up politics in a non political thread, the mods will ask to get back on topic. if it doesn't, they lock the thread. if personal attacks are made, users are punished at the discretion of the mods, which happens here from time to time, generally outside of freds house of politics.
I am a firm believer in what my Mother told me a long time ago. If you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing. Far too many people these days clawing for their 15 seconds of fame.
I don't want to live in a "neverfail" world, where any effort is "good enough." If all anyone says is "something nice," there is never any incentive to improve.
This thread is essentially a continuation of Paul's earlier thread How to get kicked for no reason at all | PriusChat concerning whether unfavorable responses his posts sometimes receive are or aren't examples of getting "kicked" "for no reason at all". The mod can decide if the threads are worth merging; I'm just thinking they should be linked to each other, so as not to fragment any discussion of the common theme. I do not post this as an "attack", nor do I hope to do so "without being noticed by the mods". Just so that's clear: @Tideland Prius.
"If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me." Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Teddy's Daughter)
Ha. If you only knew how much I'd get if I moderated with a stronger hand. You guys wanted a lighter hand. Too much "you support this that's why you hate me" or "you're just biased" comments without realising that being on this forum is a privilege and not a right.
