FR's history on even the most intense threads has always included side-bar kibbitzing. It is a very human, relational thing to do.
It also serves a very needed function of making coping with so much sobering and often horrendous, tiresome, exhausting information more tolerable, if not comfortable. Humor is particularly like that.
So, it doesn't meet your OCD sensibilities. We get that. So, you want to get out your long pointy school marm finger and whack us with your ruler. We get that. However we did not vote you in as hall monitor nor as thread drill sgt.
No need to get offended by it.
No need to get prissy about it.
No need to get hostile about it.
No need to get punitive about it.
You don't like it? Fine. Scroll on by. Won't break your wrist or fingers.
I've never found it a greatly taxing problem to scroll by posts I wasn't interested in. I've not had any prissy compulsion to be offended by idle, friendly chatter. It's not as though someone is forcing your head into a cesspool. Sigh.
Like the Doorward in MacBeth. Relief from unmitigated horror.
:)
I kinda feel like that too. Maybe not as forcefully. I just skip on by stuff that I don’t want to read. I also think that sometimes, between Q drops or if the message isn’t clear, people tend to kill a little time making small talk.
Ultimately, Ransomnote asked us to be friendly, and Q says stay united. Doing that means being tolerant of fellow FreeQs, so mostly I just try to let annoyances go.
If there is a topic that I know about, I try to share that, and usually manage to post something that I hope is helpful, though sometimes getting off topic as we all do.
To be honest, I’ve cut way back on posting anything, just because of thread police, and not wanting to deal with it.
:: I’ve never found it a greatly taxing problem to scroll by posts I wasn’t interested in. ::
Or, simply click on “View Replies” to narrow down the posts in which we have an interest.
Ol’ Cletus does that quite often.