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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Yeah .... personally, I don't much care for forums (actually, isn't it "fora"?? my Latin stinks) where the rules are too rigidly applied.
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I moderated an assortment of technical forums on the same source, and was a little more active about topic drift. People were on the forums to exchange information on certain subjects, and I tried to keep the signal to noise ratio fairly high. It was also in the days before The Internet Ate the World, and broadband was uncommon. The message traffic got passed around over land lines by dial up modems, so traffic volume that wasn't pertinent was discouraged.
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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.
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Not entirely true, but I agree.
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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.
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I like forums where you can define one and have it applied automatically.
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Dennis