Author Topic: Where has the "Where has glort gone" thread gone?  (Read 4678 times)

AdeV

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Where has the "Where has glort gone" thread gone?
« on: October 19, 2019, 12:23:35 PM »
Gentlemen -

As the result of a number of complaints regarding the titular thread, causing me to have to look through it carefully, I have temporarily quarantined it. It hasn't been deleted or altered in any way yet, just moved. Whilst I do what's necessary, I would very VERY much appreciate it if readers would please - for my sake - not engage in public speculation, mud-flinging, or any other such activities that will cause an undue amount of work for the one person here who has to be moderator.

One thing that did cause me to stop and think - and realise a shortcoming of the forum - was this:

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far as I can find this site has NO rules or guidelines

That brought me up short. I could have sworn there were some rules and guidelines.... and there are! But it turns out, you only get one shot at reading them - when you register as a new user - and then they never get seen again. I shall rectify that properly over the next couple of days, but here - for your reading pleasure, is the LEGAL AGREEMENT that you all signed up to when you joined:

This text is the binding legal agreement you must agree to to become a member here:

You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.

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In respect of the thread which triggered this latest round of, can I say this, bitchy snarking, I would like to specifically emphasise some of the DO NOTs from the above:

...you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene,...

As someone else said - we're all adults here. Most of us are probably quite old an cantankeous. Many of us are opinionated, some of us (I include myself, BTW, in this bracket) extraordinarily so. But that really doesn't mean we need to stoop to the level of today's snowflake millenial twitter-hater - either in how we respond to other members, or how we write our messages. It seems to me that the rise and rise of "social media" (Twitter, Facebook, message boards like this one, comment sections on newpaper articles & so on) has caused a massive increase in just how much anger and hate we're (we the human race, not we the LEF members...) willing to pour over complete strangers, just because they have a different opinion on a matter to someone. As we're generally older, probably wiser, and mostly more experienced in life than the sort of idiots who infest Twitter with their constant effing and blinding, let's try to make LEF a more pleasant place to be eh?

BTW: None of the legal rules above apply, as far as I know, to private messages - so if you really want to chew someone out, send a PM :)
Cheers!
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Re: Where has the "Where has glort gone" thread gone?
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2019, 02:09:30 PM »
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Halleee...lujah

Finally some wisdom. Unnecessary for gray hair... I think, but...!

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Re: Where has the "Where has glort gone" thread gone?
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2019, 03:03:16 PM »
FWIW

At least I have a Lister to entertain myself, enjoy pics of myself, rant with myself (well... sometimes a bite here... a bite there).

Maybe I'll end up alone here at LEF, who knows? With so many members getting off.

Cheers
VP

PS: I've new wine of this year harvest. Anyone want a glass?
Ps2: By the way, new pics of the 12/2 beast are posted here: http://listerengine.com/smf/index.php?topic=8320.msg102639#msg102639
« Last Edit: October 19, 2019, 04:14:38 PM by sirpedrosa »
By order of firing up:
Bernard 18A - 1968 (mama's water pump - year of my birth)
Petter PAZ1 - Jun 1967, 3HP, sn 416xxxx
Petter PAZ1 - Nov 1979, 3HP, sn 425xxxx
Lister 12/2 - 12651227, the pearl!
Deutz MAH 914, 1952 - Zündfix in chamber and go (7Mai2023).

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Re: Where has the "Where has glort gone" thread gone?
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2019, 04:24:34 PM »
Glort: What I need you - and everyone - to understand is: We ARE losing members because of some of the stuff that gets posted on this forum. You've stuck your head above the parapet so you might think you're being targeted; but that's not the case. I've tried to use a "light touch" policy of moderation here (some might even say a "non existent touch"). I intend to continue that as much as possible, but I have to listen to what's being said.

I've had more complaints about posts (NOT just yours, before you get thinking you get a prize or something) in the last 6 months than in the last 5 years of looking after this place. I've also noticed the numbers of new user registrations have been falling too. To me, that says, I'm either not doing something I should be doing, or doing something I shouldn't be doing.

Therefore, from hereon in:


Attacks on, or badmouthing, other members - is hereby banned. ANYONE wishing to "have a pop" at someone else, DO NOT post it on the forum, send it to me in the form of a PM, or a moderation report, or directly to the person in the form of a PM. If you think someone has posted something that is an attack on you personally; notify me via a moderator's report. If I agree - and I will be judge, jury and executioner on this - then the post gets deleted. Repeat offences will lead to a temporary or permanent ban and or your membership being terminated.

Regarding the use of foul or inflammatory language: I really don't have an issue with this. If you post just a tirade of swearwords (that isn't directed at a stuck/snapped head stud on a Lister), then you might find your post getting edited or deleted, but I'm really not interested in stopping people from saying what they think. Unless what they think falls under the paragraph above - in which case, restrict yourself to thinking it for all of our sakes.


I apologise for the general negativity in this post. Since we clearly need to do some housekeeping around here, I'll start another thread to cover that, just in case this one ends up in the trash...
Cheers!
Ade.
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Re: Where has the "Where has glort gone" thread gone?
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2019, 06:29:26 PM »
I like this site, there's little on the internet of interest to men my age if you exclude porn, people selling stuff and pathetic "social media". There are some very irritating people on this site, there are some very irritating relatives at family gatherings too, that's life. I have relatives that I could cheerfully strangle but I don't.

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Re: Where has the "Where has glort gone" thread gone?
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2019, 08:43:58 PM »
Coach; Count me in.  Your judgement is good enough for me.

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