An appeal for moderation

[Occhidiangela]

Thank you for bringing this up, but I have never had an issue with the administration or moderation of the board.  Any comments I made in my posts were made purely about the Indians running around and not the Chiefs.  I honestly feel that the way things are officially run around here does not need to be changed.  I took Pete's post that started the topic to be directed more towards the regular members rather than directed at the staff and continued that in my own posts. 

The idea about the wall of shame doesn't sit well with me though.  I just don't think it's needed here.
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Treesh, a while back, when the regulars were in pitched into the battle with the hordes of invading buffoons, I am talking two to three years ago, and particularly during the Beta Test for D II XPAC, I made the comment that a community sets and demands the norms it wants. For the longest time, Elric held the FAQ and etiquette on his site, as Bolty did not want to be that stuffy. :)

The community is all of us. We realized then that the mods/admins could not do it all, and Bolty & Co expressed general appreciation for support, though the occasional overzealous defense of the Lounge would get "that hardly helps" corrections from the head shed. I was on the receiving end of a few of those myself.

The membership must to a certain extent enforce, by peer pressure, community standards. What Pete seems to be appealing for, and I hear you echoing, is a call for a somewhat less strident (anal?) approach to "form versus substance" in re posting that borders on the edges of accepted norms.

This ain't the first time the call has gone out to loosen our ties a bit. I would liken the process to flushing the car radiator now and again: a periodic maintenance activity. ;)

Occhi