Ignore a specific fourm?

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by CCIP

Come on man, you can be above that. I, too, am irritated by it (maybe as much as you are), but I think it's best not to go too far in your dislikes...

I hate to say it, also, but I hope Neal gives you a word of caution on your behaviour or something. I understand where you're coming from, but I think you're just way too confrontational on too many occasions. You've picked fights with some members where I think it was entirely avoidable if you just kept above it instead of getting aggressive.

I agree. Ducimus, you complain because people in the GT forum do not show restraint and here you are peppering a topic with cursing. You want me to control you so you do not see the GT forum because you cannot show self-control and not go in there. What's next? Do you want me to modify your browser so you do not see offending websites when you Google? I suppose I could make a usergroup, configure it so it does not see the GT forum, add a bunch of people to the group, set the permissions, and then add and remove people when they decide they want to see GT or not, when they change their minds, etc. It would be one more thing I can spend my evenings doing, in addition to all the other things that take up my spare time. How much time do you think I have to mess with this foolishness, when all you have to do is not click on it?

Konovalov, and others who are put off with the GT forum, I am receptive to what you are saying (as long as you're not throwing g-d curse words around like crazy ) and there are times when I find some topics stupid and juvenile. I have tried to balance the forum with allowing different points of view but not letting any one POV dominate the forum. We will have an occasional anti-Muslim rant, or anti-US rant, but if it becomes epidemic, we apply the brakes. We will also hear people support Muslims or the US, in the middle of those rants, and often they make good points that could, possibly help people understand better.

We get 10~20 new forum members every day, we all know some percentage of them are going to be uneducated, ignorant, even morons. How can it be avoided? My stance has been that for the sake of freedom of speech, we, the senior members, should be calm and cool, explain to them that we run a relatively civil forum, and help them fit in. If, over time, they cannot restrain themselves, they cannot fit in, the constantly provoke a lot of other members, they are dismissed. But I feel it it is my duty to keep that at a minimum, not take the easy way and hammer people right and left. Because even though I am the admin of this forum, I am not anyone's boss or parent.

I would like to know how we can censor and control the discussions in the GT forum so everybody will be happy? Someone tell me how to do that. In the meantime, I'll be at the cleaners getting my brownshirt uniform.