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    Quote Originally Posted by Lignum View Post
    .... Its getting nowhere and its also getting boring


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    Red bits added by Neil

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    This colour bits added by Neil

    This Green bit added by Lignum
    And you blokes are going to run out of colours that we can still read before long.
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    Bordering on freakin' drivel
    56 Rock n Roll rebel....... Too old to die young and too young to be an old fart. Guess I'll just keep on rockin and refuse grow old gracefully.


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    WHAT A LOAD OF DRIVEL...... NO, MINDLESS DRIVEL.

    iF IT'S MINDLESS, PATHETIC AND SOUNDS LIKE IT COMES FROM A LITTLE SCHOOL KID, IT'S DRIVEL. SEE THE EXAMPLE TYPED IN BLACK ABOVE

    DON"T PUSH IT
    Well, I thought about whether to post anything at all but I decided the question needed to be asked. I went for the light-hearted approach but you obviously didn't like that. So if you want to dismiss it as drivel, well that's up to you. But I've been a member here for nearly four years now and have seen things change over that time. I think some of the other longer term members also want to know exactly where this line is being drawn. I know what I think you mean by drivel but unless you spell it out, how are we supposed to know exactly what you mean? You've given a bit of an answer to that in your last post, but your first post just threatened all these punishments for people who drivel or hijack threads without really saying what it meant. I talked to one of your mods about this in a PM and I thought my question was taken on board, but all you've really done is ridiculed it. Well, I guess it's your forum so you can do what you want.

    Personally, I don't really care about the drivel forum, I probably wont ever go in there. I just want to know how this affects the main forums and whether I have to watch myself now. Judging by your response to my post above, I guess the answer to that is yes. So now it's up to me to decide if I want to hang around any more and for you to decide if you want to tolerate me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC View Post
    .... I went for the light-hearted approach but you obviously didn't like that......

    Quote Originally Posted by silentC View Post
    .... You've given a bit of an answer to that in your last post.....
    My post was an attempt at light-hearted humour but obviously wasn't clever, witty, humorous, or Aussie larakin stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by silentC View Post
    ......So now it's up to me to decide if I want to hang around any more and for you to decide if you want to tolerate me.....
    Well you have to hang around. I was planning on spending the next few years establishing comradeship with you so when we retire we have a holiday floor to crash on at the South Coast.

    Anyone else live on the coast?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers View Post
    My post was an attempt at light-hearted humour but obviously wasn't clever, witty or humorous.....
    We were gonna let you down lightly Cliff but now you've outed yourself we can confirm you are none of the above....

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    I just talked to the wife about this. She knew straight away what you're on about Neil, except she calls it "dribbling sh..". Apparently I'm just being pedantic, so there you go, no surprise there. She has a way with words, my wife.

    Anyway life's too short to get hung up on stuff like this. I'll keep logging on and doing what I have done up to now until someone boots me out...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lignum View Post


    As long as my bum points to the ground, these forums will never be like SMC. If anyone thinks they are then maybe they should revisit SMC and have another look.

    Red bits by - Neil
    I am probably being obtuse but what is SMC?
    I only know it as the "small magallenic cloud" and somehow think this is not what is being referred too.
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    Whatthehellhappened??? I posted a second reasonable response to this thread outlining that Id had pm contact with a mod who sent me links to several posts and a thread with the intent being that he would help me understand what is being done and why... so I posted a response... it was here last night and now its not??? so was that response considered "drivel" by someone and zapped?

    Now Im even more flamin confused by all this!! and having read the above with regard to SilentC it was exactly that sort of thing I was concerned about with regard "drivel"... it is subjective... what I may think of as "drivel" some mod wont while what some mod would consider "drivel" I may not...

    And thus it can be seen that some galah in outback banana country may well see a post by some nob in the lower left hand corner of the pimple as posting "drivel" while some mod sitting in the church city wont yet another in the middle east coast state will so rather than restricting themselves to just complaining to one mod the galah posts a complaint to all the mods about the same post that the church city based mod veiws as non drivel... and another wally in the small state in the lower easter corner writes a pm to another mod up in the middle state complaining bitterly about the "drivel" while all the mods have already recieved a pm from another nob about the same "drivel" which the mod in the city of churchs has already deemed as not "drivel"... but the mod in far north queensland does see it as "drivel" and a slap and delete is sent out to the offender who has innocently gone on about their business... now maybe that mod in the city of churches has contacted the poster and recommended some modifications to the wording of the post be made before theres an issue made of it but the blokes been at work or not on line for a few days... when he comes back he finds hes been banned!!... because Neil has been called in by another mod and Neil weilded his majik mattock and blam the blokes deemed a "driveller"... but hes not even been there since he posted the damned post thats caused the issues!!

    meanwhile some galah in the far west posts another post to another thread that is seen by some wombat in the tropics or far reaches of outta kentucky or upper alaska as mmm maybe close to being "drivel" but meanwhile a numnut in the UK sees the same post and complains to the mod in toowoomba who then has to respond and go adjudge the said post by the manic poster in the west while also trying to wrangle with another complaint in another forum thread that another mod is a bit too close to so needs a second opinion finally bringing Neil himself in to try to sort it all out ... and so on can you see this becoming a problem?

    Truely a can of worms that will probably lead to far more "work" and subsequently less enjoyment for wither the mods or admin than they thought possible when they first considered this stand.

    Anyway... as the daughters say... "whatever"
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    Wasn't a mod that deleted it Ding - it came from a much higher authority.

    And not all posts are deleted because of drivel content, there are plenty of other things that will cause a post to be deleted, and not one will necessarily also result in an explanation.


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    Drivel in my opinion is page after page of stuff like what was happening on the Friday Thread, as like this...Each one a different post.

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    I farted.
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    Me to
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    There were actual posts like this in the Friday Drivel.

    Then all the hardcore Friday Drivellers get upset because we told them we dont wont to read this kind of crap anymore.

    Some of them gave these kindly words of advise, " well dont read it"

    Al

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner View Post
    Then all the hardcore Friday Drivellers get upset because we told them we dont wont to read this kind of crap anymore.

    Some of them gave these kindly words of advise, " well dont read it"

    Al
    Then Neil and the mods changed the rules and gave this advice to those drivellers that didn't like the new rules:

    Build a bridge, get over it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner View Post
    Drivel in my opinion is page after page of stuff like what was happening on the Friday Thread, as like this...Each one a different post.

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    I farted.
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    Me to
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    There were actual posts like this in the Friday Drivel.

    Then all the hardcore Friday Drivellers get upset because we told them we dont wont to read this kind of crap anymore.

    Some of them gave these kindly words of advise, " well dont read it"

    Al
    Al, in all honesty i think your the last person to be commenting on drivel and crap. You have made it into an art form. A leopard cannot change his spots.

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    Default Time out - please

    To all concerned, please do not post after this post. This is a request, not a demand.

    If you value these forums,
    If you can see that we are getting nowhere, though each of us has the best of intentions,
    If you can appreciate that people are now backed into corners they do not want to be in,
    If what you want is a forum to learn and enjoy,

    then please,

    let this go at least until after Easter to let things calm down.

    I wish you all a Happy Easter.

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