Originally Posted by
aktchi
cstead: I obvioudly do not speak for rcs85551, but as I read his post #9 above, it seemed like a simple case of mistyping to me too as the sentence naturally reads "we".
Exactly. Also happends to a mod sometimes to hit the wrong key on the keyboard!
Originally Posted by
aktchi
I understand that different things will bother different people. For example, I am not bothered by OT discussion or arguments, as I can simply ignore them. I am a little more bothered by the possibility that this nice deal may get killed. However I am most bothered by the near-certainty that this environment will discourage people from sharing their future finds, thus undermining the forum goals in the most fundamental way.
Exactly the type of hostile environment that gets created in several good deal threads is the reason why we ask people to stay on topic, remove inappropriate posts and close certain threads if necessary.
We don't want the Milage Run forums to be a place where people will have to dig through tons of "meta discussion" (to quote my fellow moderator beaubo) or other off-topic (sometimes personal) stuff.
I also doubt that a closed environment would be a perfect fix, since the TOS violations as well as the fact that requests by us moderators are sometimes ignored happen to long-time members as well.