This ring a bell?

Hi Nite Owl, Dave, Yall!
Get yer Dukes UP!
We All can be proactive!
This is the smoothest I have seen this forum.
I ran away from GRID/ud to WCG and then later ran from this forum also.
Our Admins here are not our Enemies. We are just low on "The List".
Our enemy is threads that Drive off new Crunchers.
TO QUOTE MYSELF;
"We All can be proactive! "
Follow your heart, as that is the quality of rule here; or "We are all Equal."
When you first see the enemy; beg them to cool it for the good of ALL and pray for them!
IF that is not enough to get the fire out,
TO QUOTE MYSELF;
We All can be proactive!
OK Heart stuff can be for us folks of the forum too, so we can fight back till the Referees arrive.
We all can post as we wish. (We all have the bomb here.)
We can (Each of us ) pound down the threads with posts to other ones.
If the enemy goes proactive to keep its thread at the top; Even 1 Cruncher could post 100s of huge graphics and many posts to
spread out the negativity;
Three or four of us could KNOCK them out! LOL
(Till the Referees come to save us all...............)
If we don't ACT we are all Sisyphus's and Babies.

Other things to bear in mind are that the CA lineup has changed. All the earlier controversy happened before Sek and I came on board. RT has resigned as a gesture of protest due to the way our hands are tied. David and I were strongly tempted to do likewise, but we decided we would have a more positive effect by struggling on (or at least that was my thinking). Other CAs have either faded out or never taken an active role, or been forced into inactivity by external events.

So most of the actual interaction is down to myself, David, Lawrence and Sekerob. Other CAs do drop in from time to time.

What I think is a pity is you so often don't get to see WCG's successes. When things go so perfectly that nobody notices anything, now that's clockwork. Last weekend, for example, nobody noticed our old friend returning, did they? Things don't always go so smoothly, but sometimes things do go right.

Only 2 weeks in between a rock and a hard place ....... oh well, I'll curse in Italian......

We can't fix the level of or lack of (depending on your view) communication with/from the admins. What I want to change is the regularly recurring lack of civility in the forums. I'm not claiming that such behavior is intentional or willful (at least in almost all occurrances). Even a saint has a temper and we all have or eventually will post something that we wouldn't normally. It's the lack of an immediate response to that initial post that quite frankly simply violates the rather simple, straight-forward forum rules we have. Without that, that post is a match tossed into a gas can. Here, it seems the gas can can contain nitro, petrol, or diesel. Folks react as the human beings that they are and off we go. I have seen single posts that are clearly out of line that don't get a reaction; others have ignited outright flamewars. IMHO, we need a way to catch that initial post and call it for what it is - politely and non-confrontationally - but firmly. Give the poster the opportunity to edit the post themselves. Let's catch that match before it gets to the gas can. Except for the inevitable but very rare case, we are a decent lot and, when politely told that our post was offensive, we'll accept that and fix the post or apologize. Either way, we defuse a potentially volatile situation. Catching and addressing a problem at the start usually takes less effort than later on. We have to keep in mind how we are presenting ourselves as a community to someone new, someone who is reading various pages of the WCG website. Some of the things they can find in these forums is not very complimentary of us. Others tire of it all and quit WCG altogether. Is expecting civility unreasonable?