If people copy lengthy non-music information from other sources and paste it here, it will be deleted.

Rules of thumb are OK. This does not appear to be a rule of thumb, or much of a gentle reminder and it is not proportionate to the problem.

If it is non-music (or possibly even if it is music), and Joe considers it lengthy, it WILL always be deleted..............

We live in different lands and if a poster may feel that their point can be made better by an article, that may only be available in that land and for a short time, that should be respected, as a rule of thumb, not deleted as a rule of iron.

If our leaders are to be beleived, this war is to enable freedom of expression. It is an irony indeed that peoples interest in this conflict, taking place the BS area set aside for such things, it is being used as an excuse to further curtail the same freedom of expression here.

The argument for bandwidth may be a valid one but to confuse it with Joe's personal judgement that posts should always and only contain their own opinions, is not valid. Posts should contain what the poster wants them to contain and should be placed where they want them to be placed and we can all just ignore them if we wish.

All I expect is a light touch, not to see 'keep of the grass' signs posted up everwhere, encouraging the 'Thread Quislings' to report the slightest misdeeed to Joe. [See the Help forum]

Can we please just give Jeff's BS split a chance first, before the jobsworths and the pedants drive everyone except themselves away?

More hard and fast rules only create more transgressors, most of them still blissfilly posting, totally unaware of Joe's imposed new rules of iron.