Re: It says a lot about a forum...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jeo556</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thanks guys....Now I feel like a moron!
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Aw, piss! Now I can't pile on you for asking a stupid question with an answer easily found.
It's like that stupid Karate Kid movie (which I still like though I'm a rank novice)--balance.
And the appropriate or needed mild thrashing or ribbing or whatever is easy enough to self-moderate. I've sort of defended a few people here and there to make sure they really were welcome, by me at least.
I'm banned now for a year on another board (non-gun, members only type access) for being "disrespectful", and never "re-applied" for posting privileges because I did not and still do not want to give the authoritarian boobs there the satisfaction of reading my letter of application with apology and statement of how I intend to make sure "it won't happen again." Trust me, the thin skins I found there make Frank's rules and tolerance of some...fun kidding around here...look like an idylic paradise. His standard of automatic forgiveness after a time of penance-banning is evidence of the difference and his reasonableness.
So yeah, continue to ban us when appropriate, keep up the measured and reasonable responses, lock down dead-end and fractious non-productive threads, keep the peace and let us have a bit of fun with each other.
Our mods are keeping it from deteriorating into the cesspool that alt.religion.mormon (moderated) turned into about 10-15 years ago when I wandered off. Thoughtful and informed info, even when wrong on this forum, is quite consistently backed up at least with decent logic and thinking, even if some premise is wrong and leads to an incorrect conclusion. There is no better firearms-related site in my opinion.
A few needed the choke-clain pulled. Good. Now let's get back to the business at hand. We sure can razz without being savage.
