Bandaid said:
Absolutely. And we take the rules we disagree with along with the ones we do. I wish you'd allow more than three minutes to edit a post; I wish you'd make a separate Connecticut section. But that's nothing compared to having a place where we can still discuss the hobby.
"Chaos and anarchy are seldom qualities of a productive society" is absolute Gospel truth. I'd say "never."
Too bad this is going to get hidden in this out of the way thread, but it's ripe now:
Take a guess how many of the rules we made up out of whole cloth, and how many were enacted
after there was some "abuse"? You pick the rule, I'll tell you why it was enacted. For example, there was orignally no time limit on editing. Then, a member went and edited ALL his posts down to one word (many of which were MONTHS old), so we took it down to an hour. Then a couple of members were having long back and forth discussions, and then when they were finished, erasing their posts. Lastly, we had guys making ISO posts and putting up their e*mail addresses in posts, and then deleting them within the time period (there were several other types of things going on, but I think you get the gist of where things went).