Personally, I love slides, especially on a slow Q day. I love getting to know people through their personal slides and being able to support them and help them through bad times. It might not always be a good idea to put them anywhere on FR since it's so insecure but if it helps them, I'm all for it.
I love the beautiful pictures, that have nothing to do with Q BTW, unless I'm on my phone but if I am, I scroll on by. I would never ask them to be sent off-thread or to stop doing it regardless of how much FR bandwidth they hog up.
I'm not a fan of memes because most to me are our version of fake news, but I don't demand they be sent to a meme thread. I just scroll on by. I have seen a few non-Q memes that were actually cute or funny.
To me, and it's just how I feel, I see a definite difference about WHO gets told to stop the slides and WHO gets sent to Festival. I'm not the only one that sees it either.
I see being sent to Festival as being told to sit in the corner, time-out, or FRQ jail. Some of the elites in here post and say whatever and nobody ever requests they take it off-thread.
I'm all about fairness when it comes to posting. I detest people being singled out regardless of who they are. I would feel the same and defend any person regardless of my feelings about that person.
If there are Q posting rules for this thread, POST THEM right up front. Post NO SLIDES and make no exceptions. Post NO OFF-TOPIC discussions and make no exceptions.
I'm a rules person. I believe in following the rules if there are any. If there are rules here, POST THEM and enforce them fairly across the board regardless of the poster's status. We have FR rules posted where everybody can see them. If the Q thread has rules, for goodness sakes, POST THEM! If not, stop singling people out because somebody that matters doesn't like the poster. People in here whined and cried non-stop, rightfully, about HG not being required to follow the forum rules. This is no different from where I stand.
None of this was directed at you bitt. You posted an excellent response.
‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.’ —George Orwell
Well said.