prodigyplace wrote:Isn't that what a "time out" (temporary ban) is for? Sometimes discipline is needed to restore order.
Yeah...originally and idea for someone to just take their fighting out of a newbie helping thread.
There was no "temporary ban"...just the wish for people who want to do nothing but sling mud for 2 or 3 pages of the thread to take the mud slinging somewhere else. Didn't have to be my Duke it out thread...that was just an example.
In this thread there was a couple of barbed comments...I think we all know who said what but it didn't evolve into 2 or 3 pages of barbs and Gasp isn't a newbie at all.
My main problem when things would get derailed with the bickering was in newbie threads where there was 2 or 3 really helpful posts and 15 or 20 mud slinging barbs which would totally derail the newbie thread.
Forum veterans...they can handle things well enough themselves so I don't worry about them.
My main concern has always been with the newbies getting the help they needed and not have their entire thread become a cesspool of bickering.
Pointing out the bickering....not needed...we all see it for what it is and the guilty parties already know it.
When we point it out...it's like pouring gasoline on a fire. It sure doesn't put the fire out.
If UB and PR had continued with their mud slinging here to the point of many, many ugly barbs and this thread had been a newbie thread.....maybe I would have suggested politely that they take the fight elsewhere but they didn't or haven't yet and Gasp has seen much worse from some of the old timers here that were a lot testier than PR and UB here...I saw no need to do anything here and she has joined in the fun with her bantering...so she is okay with what has been said. If she had not been okay with it...I wouldn't be joking around.
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