[JockoManning]

Guess I don't see it that way.

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.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Like the Doorward in MacBeth. Relief from unmitigated horror.

[tang-soo]

:)

[STARLIT]

I would join in but I was sent to the back of the room several days ago. I have made the big mistake of talking about world news ..even though we were bombing in another country.

I then decided it would be nice to post pictures of our President remembering why we are working so hard here. That apparently is a NO NO.

I wanted to ping screen shots to people who are having health problems and they could read the easier to read pings when they were able. That got me in trouble.

My bolder type got a slap on my hands.

I made the mistake for speaking up when another freeper was called childish.

So it seems no matter how much I want to learn, understand and exchange ideas its seems to be cluttering up the thread.

I've had my fill of the thread BOSSES and RULE makers. This is exactly why I hesitated to come here. Boy, was I right to be hesitant.

Good night sweet JockManning

[greeneyes]

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.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: 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.