hi JEFFSBABE & all
I can only really say that our good members are great members - and I know that everyone who is active always have the best interests of the forum at heart which is what makes the forum what it is - I try to post as much as I can but always feel its my responsibility to do the sometimes less than exciting part of the admin - so that you can all keep posting which is the fun and rewarding part
As most of you know I do tend to take as moderate a direction on everything as possible - if there is a compromise option or a 2nd chance to be given to members etc - I always try to take that route
I know that alot of you would rather the forum was run with an iron fist - but from experiencing the forum from behind the scenes we are often able to turn those less than great posters into semi active half decent posters ...
this has lead me to take the view that if the forum is seen to be postive and is seen to be active with decent posts - those decent posts will attract more good posts
but with negativity maybe pointing out bad posts publically we dont see those we put off that would have posted - we only see the bad that we have turned away
with the introduction of
Room 101 - where I will now be putting the posts that fall short of our hopes for good posts I think we should be able to clean up those good threads and encourage better posting - without throwing the baby out with the bath water
I know sometimes is very tempting to vent ... and I have been guilty of my fair share of that in the past but if we sort out the wheat from the chaff by giving everyone a second chance then this is probably a good thing in the longer term
cheers scrawnybob