: Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:50 pm
"Lighten up, it's just a forum"
I think these words should be our mantra tbh.
I could count on the number of one hand the people who frequent this board that I actually know in person, and even then, I knew them before I knew their RLfans username. For the main, it this merry band of few that I disagree with the most - in terms of quantity and magnitude. I can honestly say that not once did I bump into St Conroy in the street and he stopped me to say "You short, ugly
Swear Filtering so-and-so, how very dare you have a different opinion from me. That's it, our friendship is over".
Similarly, I have never been stopped in the street by someone saying "Norven Soul, you, aren't you?" then beat me up/shook my hand for something I'd posted on here.
I don't understand why some people insist on 'causing disruption' as though it's some form of teenage rebellion. We've all posted a jokey post now and again, or started a tongue-in-cheek thread, but we're hardly a forum of political satirists, are we? I can just see some hairy assed bloke in the Red Lion discussiong how the mods are like mini-Hitlers due to the swear filter or because their thread on the activities of Panama Jacks' regulars had been locked.