[Jim Robinson]

The Smokey Backroom is an enter at your own risk forum. We're going to relax the rules a bit here, as far as heated debate is concerned. This is where you can roll around in the mud and the blood and the beer, so to speak. And if someone gets a piece of his ear bitten off and lets out a curse word or two, he probably won't get banned (as long as he doesn't make a habit of going overboard).

In other words, some of the rules may be loosened up a bit in this forum. But not the rules against racism, or leftist propaganda, etc. That kind of stuff is still not welcome on FR. If a flamewar breaks out on FR, we may ask the flamers to take it to the backroom.

Or, in some instances, we may move entire threads here. This is an alternative to deleting them. We'll be playing it by ear for awhile and see how it is received.

This is not to say that we're going to welcome vicious or nasty attacks, libel or slander, but if some of you wish to get a bit heated and all of the participants involved have thick skins and are not going to cry about it, here's the place.

[Dog Gone]

I think it's a good idea, Jim. The problem is going to be deciding when to move a thread from the other forum here, and whether people take it as a license to be deliberately abusive in the other forums because they get one free bite at the apple.

This might have made the moderators' jobs a little bit harder, at least at first.

[Lx]

Jim, is it by design that posts here don't show up in the latest posts page?

Are you going to provide a link from the regular forum?

Thanks, great work as usual.

[gcruse]

This is where you can roll around in the mud and the blood and the beer

Fantastic.  It's enough for a boy to change his name to Sue!!!

[Sandy]

This is excellent. I'm so sick of the children who can't control themselves mucking up the news forum. Thank you for this.

Will you be sending flame threads here instead of deleting and/or locking them?

This would be a good place to allow all of the serial bannees to post, seeing as so many insist on coming back over and over again.

[Matchett-PI]

".....and all of the participants involved have thick skins and are not going to cry about it, here's the place."

Great idea! I've supported the idea of a forum for __the emotionally mature/thick skinned ONLY__ for a long time.

The emotional basket cases know who they are and they would rarely have a legitimate excuse if they deliberately choose to come onto this forum and get their "feelings" hurt.

[MizSterious]

Ping! See post #6.