ST, I know that from personal experience. I had garbage posted in my thread, and you guys have been very good at taking action. Yet, I'm one that sincerely appreciates your liberality along these lines. The topic is what it is, but I also like some of the freedom.
Again, there must be a reason for the popularity of this thread.
Sure, Paul we are all for some freedom , and I have myself made some light posts in many threads....but they are never arrogant, abrasive, demeaning, bullying others. We have overtime developed friendship with many of the members.....and we welcome light posts like Casper's cartoons, EagleOne's photographs, Sudoku's oneliners....but there should not be fights, unnecessary nasty references, and the tone should be of light fun and not bullying other members.
The members of this thread are fully aware of the circumstances which led to deletion of some 6-7 pages full of fighting posts last time. These posts were deleted by giving an intimation in the thread and both side's posts were deleted.....now if someone finds it high handed and curtailing their freedom, so be it.....also many did not think of the time they wasted in these fights but when these posts are deleted, they feel their precious time is wasted.....are they sure that they wanted to keep all those posts for coming generation to read ??
Posting on TJ or not posting is indivisual call....but I have received complaints from members that this thread is going too off topic and Mods need to do something about it. And these members are not from any side of the fights,. Do we tell these members that few people want unlimited and unhindered freedom so bare with them....??
If someone wants to stop posting on TJ it is his decision.....if opening a thread is 4 clicks job, deleting a post is 1 click job....but we are not trigger happy and we dont want to disturb a thread unnecessarily .....but that should not be considered as our weakness and inability to deal with it firmly ....irrespective of the persons involved.
If members want all off-topic posts also ( which does not mean arrogant posts) they can start a new thread ...we have a chit chat section for that.We can open a new thread called
" Nifty 50 Futures....Nukkad" or something as they deem fit ....and all can post all kind of off topic posts 100 % there......we will help by transferring all such posts from here to that thread.
Having wasted enough time on this hope the sanity will prevail in this thread....
We have many options to deal with this kind of situation.....hope that we are not forced to use any of them and this thread continues properly.
Smart_trade