Why oh Why

judging by the stats that Delta9 posted , they are visiting in their hundreds. As the format has been improved and the number of threads and posts grow I suspect many more will consider joining (in spite of the rather clumsy attempts to de-rail.)

It is interesting that even the more contentious posts on here, so far, have been better natured than when on CWDF, maybe because we have lost "disgusted of Camberly" and others of the Faux offended brigade

I can't help but wonder what makes LC think she can micromanage every single aspect of CWDF? I wonder how long it will take Dan to realize that CWDF was a much better place before LC and wigglefingers were allowed to make it "their forum". If what has been posted on this forum so far displays an intemperate nature, I'll eat my hat. The little actual debate about politics that has taken place, as far as I've seen, has been almost congenial. 

The problem with the debates on CWDF is that there were 3 or 4 members who insisted upon having the last word and would get in a pissing contest with another of the 3 or 4 on almost every thread and it turned into page after page of the same childish BS. CWDF could have banned just a few people who were causing all the perceived problems and those problems would have gone away. The problem is, those who were actually causing the perceived problems by insisting on having the last word, and most of those engaging in the endless, childish back and forth, were the goody-two-shoes of the forum who are also quite adept at pulling other peoples' strings and making them look like the bad guys.

My 3 recent warnings, current 'requires mod approval before posting' status, removal of innocent posts and removal of my signature are down to the same person.

I've PM'd Daniel to ask him to think about it but I don't hold out much hope. It's his forum and I wished him luck.

This is my take on it as well Roger, I mentioned in another thread on here that it was an odd coincidence that one particular poster put on some pretty disgusting stuff and within a few minutes there was a post on CWDF screaming how everything on here was disgusting.......shall we say the timing seemed suspicious.

I had to choose a different name because somebody registered using my CWDF user name solely to post offensive messages. Needless to say it didn't fool anybody, but as the name had been taken I chose an entirely different one. The same thing happened to at least one other member.

Johnny said: "It is interesting that even the more contentious posts on here, so far, have been better natured than when on CWDF, maybe because we have lost "disgusted of Camberly" and others of the Faux offended brigade"

Chagall said: "This is because of the....... intemperate nature of much the content in general on the new forum."

I can't say I have noticed any 'intemperate nature' here - I have made some daft posts (and deserve to be shot, I feel, sometimes) - but there hasn't been any bitching or unpleasantness, has there? Maybe I have just developed too much of a thick skin, and let too many insults just slide over me. At home I say all kinds of crap and my girlfriend just says "Yeah, yeah..." as she's got used to me and knows it's just nonsense.
I do have a thin skin sometimes, and there was one recent story in the News that I couldn't read - about the couple stomping on their 2-year-old child.
I also found it hard to watch the movie 'Schindler's List' - just gets my blood pressure up, so much unnecessary awfulness.
Sorry - rambling again!