[tgreer]

Originally Posted by Ohiosweetheart

WOW... tgreer you really DO need to lighten up hun. It's not your place to tell people where to post, nor what to post. If you want to jump on Boofo for lightening up the thread, then you better jump me too, since I was playing as well. And I shall continue to do so

Agreed. It's not my place. It is, however, the place of a moderator to do exactly that. I merely stated my agreement with the administrator's post to "get back on topic". My complaint was that so many threads go off-topic here that it is nearly impossible to follow-through on anything. The original thread didn't need any "lightening up". It was a good thread that was immediately hijacked into off-topic nonsense. That seems to be the norm with all "Site Feedback" threads. Someone has a legitimate idea or complaint, and rather than addressing and discussing it, we get either 1) pages of one-liners or 2) personal attacks.

I mean, the vBulletin software we all know and love has moderation features for a reason, and we all have moderators on our sites. At least on the sites I moderate, the site owner didn't tell me "whenever there's a serious post, a negative criticism, or a post that goes off-topic, your job is to jump in there and act silly!".

I don't want the power to tell people where or what to post. I do want the staff here to exercise that power when necessary, rather than being part of the problem. Amykhar and I definitely do not see eye-to-eye on some things (such as the private Coders' Forum), but I applaud the way she stepped in and split this thread up. Better late than never!

Play all you want... I just hope that when you do, and the playing is off-topic or disruptive to the thread, that a moderator will quickly correct the situation.