Post by Col ISIHAC. on Apr 24, 2010 21:06:27 GMT
As co-founder and administrator here - I have rights. Understand this, and understand it well.
I do also have authority. And I will use that authority to exercise my right to bar anyone who is a registered poster OR bar the IP address of a regular or occasional guest who attempts to destroy what we have here. And if that raises issues with some of you - talk to me in private. PM or email. I will not get involved in debate on here with anyone about what I can or cannot do.
This is a small community. We have a small number of regular users, who come and go; but always return. Tinpot Terrace is alive. It costs nothing at all to run apart from some time, given freely by three people. In a way, those who post in order to maintain activity, or stimulate activity are also helping maintain what we have. Should anyone want to be reminded of the difference between this forum and any other of a similar nature; consider that PP cost. Annually, thanks to the hosting site and required someone with a credit or debit card to keep it alive. That particular gesture was lost to all users and I am not aware that any one single person - be they from Kettering, Gateshead, Stafford, Sutton, Havant - anywhere - offered to maintain the site. It died because no one person was prepared to take it on. Fact. Deny it; distort it, but that site required financial input and did not receive it.
I police this site as and when I feel it necessary. And it that upsets anyone here at all - fine by me. Live with it or leave and find somewhere else to comment. I do it rarely. I do it when people I care about are upset enough by the actions or words of others to tell me that they want something done. I try not to but do find the references to PP and the PRA annoying, offensive and, let's face it, confrontational. Clearly they are designed to be, or why would people bother labelling themselves so!? So again, if using this forum grates with you - no worries. Go away. Go somewhere else. I do not want you here if all you wish to do - no matter how subversively; no matter how flowery the prose, the rhetoric or reference to things past, things dead and buried - is annoy other people.
Like I said I have rights. Yeah, responsibilities too - to those who want to banter and converse on here without worrying whether some jumped up arsewipe is going to slap them down. I really don't care if this is perceived as me picking up my ball and running away with it because I don't like the score at half time. Users here will do one of two things. Understand and chuckle; or feel they have to respond in as wordy, tarty, arty-farty poncy way as possible in order to get the last word.
Don't bother. This IS the last word. Don't bother making reference elsewhere to my words either; you will be deleted. Arbitrarily, because I can. Oh and think on: Non-registered users cannot start threads. Use this forum properly or do not use it at all.
I do also have authority. And I will use that authority to exercise my right to bar anyone who is a registered poster OR bar the IP address of a regular or occasional guest who attempts to destroy what we have here. And if that raises issues with some of you - talk to me in private. PM or email. I will not get involved in debate on here with anyone about what I can or cannot do.
This is a small community. We have a small number of regular users, who come and go; but always return. Tinpot Terrace is alive. It costs nothing at all to run apart from some time, given freely by three people. In a way, those who post in order to maintain activity, or stimulate activity are also helping maintain what we have. Should anyone want to be reminded of the difference between this forum and any other of a similar nature; consider that PP cost. Annually, thanks to the hosting site and required someone with a credit or debit card to keep it alive. That particular gesture was lost to all users and I am not aware that any one single person - be they from Kettering, Gateshead, Stafford, Sutton, Havant - anywhere - offered to maintain the site. It died because no one person was prepared to take it on. Fact. Deny it; distort it, but that site required financial input and did not receive it.
I police this site as and when I feel it necessary. And it that upsets anyone here at all - fine by me. Live with it or leave and find somewhere else to comment. I do it rarely. I do it when people I care about are upset enough by the actions or words of others to tell me that they want something done. I try not to but do find the references to PP and the PRA annoying, offensive and, let's face it, confrontational. Clearly they are designed to be, or why would people bother labelling themselves so!? So again, if using this forum grates with you - no worries. Go away. Go somewhere else. I do not want you here if all you wish to do - no matter how subversively; no matter how flowery the prose, the rhetoric or reference to things past, things dead and buried - is annoy other people.
Like I said I have rights. Yeah, responsibilities too - to those who want to banter and converse on here without worrying whether some jumped up arsewipe is going to slap them down. I really don't care if this is perceived as me picking up my ball and running away with it because I don't like the score at half time. Users here will do one of two things. Understand and chuckle; or feel they have to respond in as wordy, tarty, arty-farty poncy way as possible in order to get the last word.
Don't bother. This IS the last word. Don't bother making reference elsewhere to my words either; you will be deleted. Arbitrarily, because I can. Oh and think on: Non-registered users cannot start threads. Use this forum properly or do not use it at all.