But ownership gives you certain rights, no?
R put this place together. He chose his team, and with our consultation (which, being a
remarkably rational human being, I hardly think he needs) makes the rules for the place.
Let's get it straight, this place is open to the public free of charge, but if R decided tomorrow that you could only log into this place if you were wearing a pair of yellow fishing waders and one of those caps that holds a couple of cans of beer, he would be well within his right to do that.
The rules of the forum are in place to promote a forum where fans can discuss Meat's work and projects in an atmosphere that is respectful to Meat, to the forum staff, and to each other.
If certain content is felt to be detrimental to a thread being respectful or on topic, it's the privilege of the web master to act as they think best.
If you want a forum where you can say exactly what you want exactly when you want to say it, there's a whole lotta web out there for you to build one.
Hey, check this out, I wrote a poem for ya, it goes something like this
For every forum member
a different point of view
You think that I should ban some
Some think I should ban you
She thinks that you're much too positive
He thinks you show to much doubt
But it's the mods who always get ~~~~~~ed
When Meat begins to shout
So have a little patience
With others on this forum
Learn to respect each other
And show some goddam decorum
Everybody has their own idea of what should be acceptable on this forum
As R said, we've been looking for that middle ground for the last 10 years.
I thought I found it once, but apparently it was Belgium
Where Meat is concerned, I think it's always worth remembering that everything said on the forum
is personal to him.
To use a metephore i've used before, imagine a baker looking online and finding a forum dedicated to scrutinizing every loaf he's ever made?
How would you react to the news the rolls you baked on Thursday were shite?
It's not exactly
unprecedented to have Meat lose his rag on the forum, but i'll be ~~~~~~ed if it's getting easier.
(Note on this subject, Meat last said something on this thread on page 4/5, we're now on page 18 ).
Could it be because the forum actually
means something to them?
Some folks have been comming here a lot of years. They feel attached. It's natural that when somebody decides to leave it's an emotional time for them. I, for one, have no problem with people posting their goodbyes if they so choose. And should they come back I never greet they with messages like "oh you're back, I thought you'd left
".
Tell that to the two staff members (me and Andy) who met their wives through the fan community, another staff member who has a beautiful baby girl with another of our members, and other such relationships that have sprung from mlukfc
This is a community, and IMHO it's certainly worth much more than a shit.
