The thing with all forums and their threads is that
users have to use common sense or not when posting, whilst at the same time excercising the freedom to express their opinion. The forum
owners have to make a decison about forum policy and how that forum will be policed.
TGC have a fairly light handed policy and as long as things dont degrade too badly (even off topic as some things could be said to be cross thread linked) or more impotratntly offennsive posting starts to creep in, then TGC will allow a thread to continue for the sake of allowing users that freedom to express their opinion.
TGC constantly watch the forum, if something is seen to be of a nature that overly or continually breaks sensible forum policy then any thread that infringes may recieve a warning shot as it were. Continued bad behaviour will quicly result in threads being locked.
In severe cases of unacceptable behaviour then a post may be locked without warning or explanation.
Tha seems to me to be fair policy.
We all know that posts should be restricted to topic and posted in the correct location - addditionally we should behave as nice people would in our postings. Unfortunately that is not always the case as everyone has differing opinions and some feel rather strongly about them. Thats the nature of us humans and that is unlikely to change in the near future. What a dull place the world would be if we were all of the same opinion.
A heavy handed policing policy may stamp out many bad uses of the forum in the opinion of those policing but would not stop initial posts - but would deny any ability of others to reply unless the post happened to be deleted before anyone saw it.
Its very easy for forum members to police the forum themselves by following the rules by - for instance not being drawn into unecessay debates when temptation is clearly put in front of them in an attempt to aggresively contimue that situation.
If you dont like an opinion or disagree you dont have to reply - but in some instances "you cant help it can you" because you yourself may feel strongly about something. Refraining from response in such a situation takes a strong individual and by nature many of us are not so. Doing so of course to some extent defeats the very object of the forum - the freedom to express that opinion.
Hopefully, then this will be the last post here as the matter has be discussed in much detail and enough opinions put forward, the decision is made, so the thread could be closed.
Alternatively we could all effectively close it ourselves by forum members refraining from posting further.
Are we all strong enough for that - I dont think so?
Who will be The Weakest Link?
Watch the space below this post to find out the answer.
p.s. Beacuse I now cant post here again
I thank you all in advance.
