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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I used to moderate an electronic forum devoted to SF. Topic drift was both frequent and expected, and I made little effort to direct it. I viewed the forum as the electronic equivalent of the SF conventions I attend and help to plan and run. People at those gathering can and do talk about everything. I just treated them like Little Bo Peep's lost sheep - "leave them alone and they'll come home, wagging their tales behind them", and so they did.
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Dennis
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Yeah .... personally, I don't much care for forums (actually, isn't it "fora"?? my Latin stinks) where the rules are too rigidly applied.
If every post has to be as dull as dishwater (oh ... gotta put that one in the list of colloquialisms) and always directly on point, no one gets to make friends.
I actually pulled out of Kindle Korner, although I think all of my posts were helpful .... but, for the life of me, I could NOT remember to sign my damn posts. I'm just too used to having an automatic signature. So, on my second warning .... I just said WTF, and pulled the plug on my membership.
That's the sort of thing that reminds me of those few teachers I had growing up who would beat you down with a ruler if you did anything creative. I actually had a few fingers broken by one with whom I bumped heads about my handwriting. That was 3rd grade ... I didn't WANT my handwriting to look like the stuff up on the board ... I WANTED IT TO LOOK DIFFERENT.
It does look different now ... in fact it's horrible, but I figured they invented computers just for me. I'm just glad my fingers healed such that I can type. (And no .... I never rated the teacher out, so no, I never went to the doctor to have the fingers set. I just hid my hands from my mother until the swelling went down. And so they are just a bit "tweaked" looking.)