Quote - and for the record at LEAST one person is still greatly misunderstanding me.

Thankfully there have been a couple who did understand and I didn't come across as a total witch = ) to everyone!

 

jj -- I'm not picking on you -- really, I'm not.  But there are others about who'd stand up and salute a set of rules like those which I've so mildly suggested -- that is to say: they'd stand up and salute so long as THEY were the ones running the show.  And so long as THEIR rules were the ones that thre rest of us would have to obey.

Frankly, my issue with this type of thread revolves around the fact that people should simply be allowed to say what they want to say -- as they want to say it.  Not as I (or anyone else) want them to say it.

As others have complained about elsewhere -- so there are gallery cliques which form and shut others out -- so what?  The only way to prevent such behavior would be to institute a set of choking rules which most of us would never willingly agree to live under.  So......you deal with the reality of the situation as you find it.  The only other thing that anyone can do is to endlessly complain about it -- because people aren't going to stop doing what they do.  No matter how annoying it might be.

I believe that you are a nice person.  And I'd never dream of picking on you.  Nor did I read it that you are among those who'd like to see such a set of rules as those that I've suggested imposed on the rest of us.  Let me make that clear.

But there are people who do want to.  And my posts are intended for / aimed at them. 

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