Interesting thread to log on to.........

Sorry for any inconvenience Max but this site has grown tremendously and the net is what the net is. People will behave as adults (mostly) if they are given a well defined set of rules. On that point Clinton has it right.

I have been remiss in not sending in my bucks and running the occasional FUNd raiser thread. I'll get something in this month and try to get back to "something" monthly. I'll do what I can.

I know that rules have never been something you wanted to have on any formal basis but I've seen many types of moderation around the net and the best run sites where the folks act responsibly and adultlike are the places where a set of rules are strictly enforced with no questions asked. Mods may give warnings but they never give explanations. They just zap. The occasional "beef" is taken off thread and directly to an administrator. Joe is in an untenable position which makes him an easy target.

My bad of course for messing with Roger. He doesn't see he's been messing with us for years, but.........And to some degree, your bad too.   He's used an old quote hundreds of times and I know you'd like to have it that way (no rules) but it doesn't work once a site grows past a certain point which Mudcat has. Responding to Roger earlier might have saved some of this. I dunno'......So how about reinstating Roger and I'll agree to quit messing with him?   Just ask him to back-off the campaign against Joe. No more censorship complaints. If he understands that we are all playing under the same rules perhaps......maybe he might........well its worth a shot isn't it? Roger has written some beautiful poetry and songs and staying in that vein, he needs to be a part of this community.

I'm pretty happy just lurking these days anyway. The BS seems to have become less fun and the political stuff is too contentious even for me. Remember when we were all upset over the "Armalite" thread? Compared to today's threads, that was a friendly discussion.

The occasional great thread does come along still and I still enjoy posting to them though. See Jean Richie's beautiful video for instance. And I still owe you a kick in the balls, so maybe this year huh?

Spaw