kmw opened this issue on May 02, 2005 ยท 29 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 03 May 2005 at 2:59 PM
Pls, play by the rules. thanx.
What the......?
Why would we want to do that?
I thought that "playing by the rules" was against the rules.
And I've been in forums where Mods have flat out said 'Shut up' or 'Enough'. (Only once was that actually directed at me and I gotta be honest, if we'd been standing on a street corner right here in ol' New York I'd've responded 'Or what?'
A more apt comparison would be if you were standing on the street corner in New York, and a cop told you to 'shut up'.
Respond to a cop by saying 'Or what?'......and you might find out.
I've seen the results of no rules. It isn't pretty.
But one has to admit that some people thrive in such an environment......for a while, anyway. As long as they are the biggest bully on the block (at least in their own mind). Then it's a wonderful situation for them.
But when a cop (or other authority figure) comes along and tells the bully to behave himself -- the reaction can be quite similar to that of a three-year-old being told to settle down.
"Waaaaahhhhhh!!!!! NO!!!!! I WANT! I WANT! I WANT!!!!!!! MINE! MINE! MINE! Waaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!
Adult discussions among adults can be wonderful and informative things.
But the briefest of reflections upon the long sordid history of humanity offers a quick explanation as to why we can't get along in the forums.
And such a quick peek into history will also provide the answer as to why forum rules -- and the authoritative mods to enforce them -- are a great idea.
Some of us have the wherewithal to survive in the jungle. Some of us. We could even thrive there.
But we prefer not to live that way.