Just a reminder...

@DiscordTiger Said
Flaming is bad, mmmkay?
Flaming is also personal attacks, name calling, telling someone to "f*** off" etc.

I'm catching up on threads and am seeing several people getting all feisty lately in several threads. So hence the reminder, it needs to stop.
If you disagree with someone, great!
DO: tell them what you think is wrong with their ideas, express your contrary ideas, ignore them or simply say you disagree without elaborating. There are plenty of ways to handle this.

DON'T: call them names, try to insult them with personal digs, that are essentially calling them names, or follow them around trying to bait them into a fight.

You can imply or say a post or idea is "stupid", you can't call a poster "stupid". Telling them they need more information about the subject, is not necessarily calling them stupid.

Though if you call an idea "stupid", most people are going to ask you to back up that thought. That sort of debate/conversation is welcome around here.

IF you can not control what you post when you read someone else's posts, then block them. Go to their profile, scroll to the end of the friends list, click "Block Member" and confirm that you want to add someone to your enemy list: "Poof" the annoyance is gone.

You can always unblock someone later.
Trust me, the block feature is awesome. I use it to block people that bother me, even if its only for a few hours.

@JR_Sanford Said

People can call me whatever they want...

@JR_Sanford Said

People can call me whatever they want... just consider the source, because they usually have an issue with their own self-ezteem.

J.R.

@DiscordTiger Said
Flaming is bad, mmmkay?
Flaming is also personal attacks, name calling, telling someone to "f*** off" etc.

I'm catching up on threads and am seeing several people getting all feisty lately in several threads. So hence the reminder, it needs to stop.
If you disagree with someone, great!
DO: tell them what you think is wrong with their ideas, express your contrary ideas, ignore them or simply say you disagree without elaborating. There are plenty of ways to handle this.

DON'T: call them names, try to insult them with personal digs, that are essentially calling them names, or follow them around trying to bait them into a fight.

You can imply or say a post or idea is "stupid", you can't call a poster "stupid". Telling them they need more information about the subject, is not necessarily calling them stupid.

Though if you call an idea "stupid", most people are going to ask you to back up that thought. That sort of debate/conversation is welcome around here.

IF you can not control what you post when you read someone else's posts, then block them. Go to their profile, scroll to the end of the friends list, click "Block Member" and confirm that you want to add someone to your enemy list: "Poof" the annoyance is gone.

You can always unblock someone later.
Trust me, the block feature is awesome. I use it to block people that bother me, even if its only for a few hours.

@TenaciousDave Said

This is just for the public forums,right?

I'm still allowed to call EagleSnatch a big sloppy t*** on his profile?

Please tell me that I haven't lost that privilege!

@Eaglebauer Said

YAH! Please say it ain't so!

I need him to remind me otherwise I'll forget what a sloppy t*** I am!

@boxerdc Said

This is the only kind of flame that should be thrown around here...

@Eaglebauer Said

YEAH! It's like George Carlin said! He said "Live and let live, anyone who can't go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherf***er."

@TenaciousDave Said

This is just for the public forums,right?

I'm still allowed to call EagleSnatch a big sloppy t*** on his profile?

Please tell me that I haven't lost that privilege!

@DiscordTiger Said

Yeah, I meant on the public forums.
journals, pictures, and profiles are generally less moderated, ToS is a little different there, and the user has more control.

Granted, if you royally f*** up and start posting porn that gets the site in trouble, we will punch or ban for it, but banter among friends in their profiles, we generally won't look at unless it starts getting reported.

Though the first advice will be, in your case if eagle had a problem with it, he could drop your a** a friend and problem solved. That is assuming you two have some sort of lover's quarrel and things got ugly.

@DiscordTiger Said

Though the first advice will be, in your case if eagle had a problem with it, he could drop your a** a friend and problem solved. That is assuming you two have some sort of lover's quarrel and things got ugly.

@TenaciousDave Said

If EagleSnatch ever dropped my ass, I would go to his house and boil his bunny in a stockpot...just like in Fatal Attraction.

@Eaglebauer Said

Ah there's the paragraph...a mention of Dave's ass, me, and a lover's quarrel.

Dave, I owe you twenty.

@DiscordTiger Said

i orginally had "things started spilling out all over the forum"

instead of "things got ugly"
But then I had a bad mental image. Would that have increased or decreased the amount you would have paid Dave?