Ever vigilant against the AZ criminal element.
Kevin,
It has occured to me that you don't understand my intent which is why you do what you do. So let me apologize if I have offended you.
He have rules that are here for a reason. Not everyone follows them for whatever reason. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's for personal gain (when bumping a for sale thread) or maybe it's just antagonize another member. I'm not sure the reason but let me say this, when you choose to ignore the rules it hurts the forum. When it's not moderated as much as it could be it will eventually become a problem. Good members that follow the rules (you are in this group most of the time) start to see a trend that may
seem as if they are allowed to get away with the violations and over time the good members will sometimes slowely become the violators.
Honestly, I would prefer the old rules without the 48 hour bump rule where it was everyone for himself. We didn't have these problems back then. There is a simple answer to the problem but for some reason it hasn't been implemented. The software that runs this forum has the ability to allow the OP to be the only person to post in a thread. It also has the ability to allow that ONLY every 12, 24, 48, etc hours from the original post. Even further it has the ability to NOT bring the thread back to the top is someone other then the OP posts (if allowed) in it. Which would be perfect here. That way if someone asks a question, it doesn't get bumped back to the top but it allows the OP to answer the question (after 48 hours) for the benifit of others who would like the answer to the question
When I send a pm to a new member, it's not to be an a$$hole. It's done to inform and help the member. If we can get Scottyjoe to actually admit the truth you will find that my first pm to him was polite and informative. In fairness, his reply was polite as well. It was what happened after that where the lines get blurred.
I had a phone conversation with Mr. Baxter a little while ago. I was polite when I called him and he was pretty heated. I let him give his opinion and then I tried to offer mine even as he was constantly interrupting me until I asked him to let me give my opinion as I let him give his. I even tried to offer an analogy for why I will send out that pm but he was too stubburn to listen. He was only interested in HIS reasons why I am wrong. I will just ignore him in the future. It seems as though he doesn't have it in him to understand anyone else's opinion once he has declared it to be true.
I am hoping if I give you some insight maybe we can move past this....
Lets suggest that you and someone you care about are crossing the street. You're involved in a heated debate over something and neither of you see a bus coming that is about to hit you if you don't stop. At the last second you see it and grab your friend and pull him back saving them from being hit by the bus. Is it ok that you stepped in and pulled him back? Or should you just let your friend get hit by the bus because
he didn't know it was coming?
In our little world it's obviously not as serious as getting hit by a bus. But as you well know there have been times that a new member has been banned without warning for not following the rules that he may not even have known about. So whats wrong with sending a polite pm inforing the member of the rules. Additionally, as I'm sure you know there are some members here that are not like us and don't frequent the forum everyday and still do not even know about the bumping rule.
After being informed, some members have choosen to just ignore the rules which in all honesty kinda pisses me off. My biggest pet peeve is the lack of courteousness people have for each other. And yes, I will admit I can be a bit forward but in my defense It's usually after trying to do the right thing several times.
