Quoted from viper001:I spent some time on the Aussie forums several years back because it was the only place that Wayne G would pop up on during the time he was looking at the big pile of deposit money people had given him for MMr v1.0 and wondering how he was actually going to build a pinball machine. Tried to play nice and abide by their rules, but finally I realized that over-moderation had turned it in the electronic equivalent of a baby's crib, complete with the bumper pads around the sides. Their need for civility had eventually driven off anyone with an actual dissenting opinion.
This is what is going to happen here. The problem is that there is nowhere else to go. RGP is gone, reduced to a garbage Google platform. You cannot make people play nice. There will always be friction between people and conversations, even civil ones, go off topic and moderating them to stay on topic seems ridiculous. The only thing here that irritates me is the ridiculous social justice warriors that take up everyone's cause without being asked and become a royal pain in the ass about it. But in the end it is Robins sight and we have to play by his rules and again, there is nowhere else to go.
Humble, TX
Victoria, BC
