[B Knotts]

OK...you tell me, what forum rule did I break?

On the other hand, you personally attacked me.

Perhaps it's you that needs to review the forum rules.

[Coop]

Didn't say you broke a forum rule, I said you should familiarize yourself with them before accusing the forum of banning those with dissenting opinions.

On the other hand, you personally attacked me.

ROTFLMAO!!

[Don Joe]

It seems that FR is experiencing a protracted Tragedy of the Commons moment. More and more threads dragged down into pointless pissing matches -- in some cases, apparently intentionally, with the goal of getting the thread kicked to the backroom -- or, deleted outright.

If you can't silence the speakers, muffle their speech.

I've watched some of these so-and-sos running in packs. They tend to operate in the off-hours, where they can engage whoever happens to be there (and thus create a really nasty "many-to-one" situation), bait him/her to the breaking point, and then "score": A decent poster is suspended, a thread is knocked out of the ring, and, the "inconvenient" information will no longer be seen.

Yeah, the more I've thought about it, the more I've concluded that there are a number of bots (to coin a phrase) that operate with the goal of "informic cleansing" -- they do NOT want to have Too Many Eyes see "inconvenient" material -- so, they've got a system that works like clockwork.

What I *don't* know is if they're "joy-posters" (an extended collection of "get-a-lifers"), or, if it's a "service for hire" gaggle of paid seminar-posters.

Whatever it is, it leaves a very bad taste in my mouth, and the result -- for me at least (and I suspect for others too) -- is less time spent on FR, and more time spent in Real Life.

As Zimmie said a long time ago, there are some among us who think that life is but a game. And it's not MY fate. Life is too short for this kind of crap. Especially as I watch what's left of my country going down the drain.

Aw, crap. I'm rambling.

G'nite.

PS: Illegitimus non-C.