Sounds like a great idea, Alan. You're tempting me...except that if you post one set of statistics, then you have to post another set, and another and another. Then you'd have a group of people not only posting the "member since" data, but following each other around posting their entire body of work, recorded statistically. People get hung up on that stuff, you know.
Did you notice the size of this very thread where an open forum was declared and enforced? The only posts deleted needed to be deleted. It's a clue.
Nuh-unh; several were deleted out of spite; I'm like that.
Toasthole stands. It is clearly a typo for Posthole and I have 2 of them.
Sounds like a great idea, Alan. You're tempting me...except that if you post one set of statistics, then you have to post another set, and another and another. Then you'd have a group of people not only posting the "member since" data, but following each other around posting their entire body of work, recorded statistically. People get hung up on that stuff, you know.
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Your example of the 'member since' stats has proved your domino theory to be wrong. - That hasn't happened.
-- Remember? - JR removed them at one point, citing a reason much like yours . - There was a big thread on restoring that info. JR restored it, & imo, it hasn't been abused much since.
If everyone here started with a clean slate, & clear rules were posted about how disclosures would be made on violations of the posting guidelines, & complaints filed [for or against], --
--- IMO, peer pressure alone would serve to eliminate much of the need for moderator action.
No such thing as too much information about an unknown poster, before you reply.