Rule suggestions please

[CharveL]

Pretty much everything is politics and religion by interpretation and degree.

How about no rules on topics and just arbitrarily smack down threads that get out of hand. The "no rules" policy should apply to mods as well, so simply lock threads that get out of hand and ignore all the indignant, butthurt posters that try and turn it into a mod-nazi debate.

I'm sure the mods are reasonably fair and try not to be biased but we don't need a court of law to decipher individual situations in a forum like this. Life's not fair sometimes and if you can't play here than they can cry about the unfairness somewhere else.

I mean, really, just stick to the legal stuff like overtly racist, serious and unrelenting personal attacks, pron, that kind of thing. Let the rest work itself out and don't be shy about unceremoniously locking bad threads until people lose their anarchistic tendencies and everything settles out.

[arthursmedley]

Originally Posted by CharveL

Pretty much everything is politics and religion by interpretation and degree.

How about no rules on topics and just arbitrarily smack down threads that get out of hand. The "no rules" policy should apply to mods as well, so simply lock threads that get out of hand and ignore all the indignant, butthurt posters that try and turn it into a mod-nazi debate.

I'm sure the mods are reasonably fair and try not to be biased but we don't need a court of law to decipher individual situations in a forum like this. Life's not fair sometimes and if you can't play here than they can cry about the unfairness somewhere else.

I mean, really, just stick to the legal stuff like overtly racist, serious and unrelenting personal attacks, pron, that kind of thing. Let the rest work itself out and don't be shy about unceremoniously locking bad threads until people lose their anarchistic tendencies and everything settles out.

+1

[unreasonable]

In a real Pilot's Lounge (at least in an Officers' Mess) the forbidden topics are:

- Politics
- Religion
- Women
- Shop

...which pretty much rules out 90% of the interesting parts of the human condition and explains why military types are so keen on active service - anything to get away from the stupefying dullness of the mess.

[CharveL]

Personally I'm not all that interested in what anyone thinks on those subjects, and less so imposing my views on them but I don't mind sitting on the sidelines watching people implode either.

[Robert]

Can we NOT have discussions of CoD in the Pilot's Lounge? There's a whole other forum for that.

[raaaid]

just no personal attacks or arrahasement and any validity of topic

i could disguise religion by the magic of spell

god=dog=katy perro(dog in spanish)
and devil=lived=loved

just let any topic and let haters ban themselves

[Viking]

Im just waiting for the first "Sig to our troops in Iraq!" tread and then we will see what a can o worms we have opened!
Pravda

[Pudfark]

ROFL....What an improvement vs the last several weeks...

I sure hope "Mods" qualify for overtime pay....
Cuz yer job is gonna be as much fun?
As a corn count in an outhouse....

[Pudfark]

On a serious note....
Things must be really desperate to resort to
these new measures....it sure seems that the
lunatics are now running the asylum....