[Rex Tirano]

Why are there so many new forum members trying to over-turn the forums? First the ClaireBear rebellion, now this...

First of all I'd like to state that Dino, you are obviously a eloquent and intelligent poster, as your posts are long and are well written. I am assuming that you [as you are an old forum admin] are telling us of a method that has worked in one of your forums.

However, if this idea was implemented in this forum, you would have alot of angry people having "a go" at you. So, think of the consequences to your actions.

Anyway, onto my opinion. I don't think this is a good idea because the moderating team have been doing their job well for 4 years [or more now] and I have only seen a handful of "Idiots" and they have been dealt with accordingly. If the "Idiot" persists, they are banned.

It's as simple as that, if this idea was implemented, the members would be flaming a banned member. So, this "Idiot" would either, not recieve the messages or not be able to defend themselves. Which is unfair to both poster and reciever.

Also, I think you would find that if this idea was implemented, most forumers wouldn't have anything to do with it, and you would be the only one.

It would also give the forums a harsh atmosphere and would put off any new comers. OWF is a caring community, with alot of sympathetic, empathetic and genuinely nice people posting here everyday. It would be awful if competent, nice newbies were put off joining because of the mistakes of 2 or 3.

Dino, most of your posts seem to be very controversial. And it's good that we have a member, taking an active part in the forum's well being and giving so many new ideas to the admin staff. But, another part of being intelligent [as I said earlier] is knowing when you're beaten and stepping down graciously.

Rexy