Rance! You're early still! The PTB are off on holiday and$#@^..*NO CARRIER....

 

Heh. Jus' kidding. 

 

The trick is to ignore the garbage, ignore the obvious trolls and tight-arses (...as /me waves at the newbie Tyler guy trying to impress his apparent online girlfriend... hello!), and get straight to the points that make sense.

The idea is to come up with good thoughts, and good ideas. To get past the obvious agendae. To cut the crap and get it all out in the open. To dispose of the mincing, the squeamish, and the simpering, whimpering troublemakers. To give the forum what it periodicallyand most desperately needs - a good, hard enema, and to sing a little while you slide that nozzle right into the forum's cramped-up backside and give that bottle a good hard squeeze. 

...but why? Because like real colons, forums tend to get clogged and stuffy. It's good to clear the air of all those foul odors, and the forum's analogic colon of old crap (see what I did there?). You know, to accomplish the stuff the folks who built this forum originally wanted to do, but then realized that they'd never want to allow for fear of getting a tarnished reputation amonst the credit-card-carrying public.

 

Ah, but you know as well as I that long ago, it happened naturally. On it's own. There was a whole pantheon of characters who happily took on the job: Legume, Ironbear, Ynsaen, and more than a few other crusty straight-shooters who added life, love, and the scent of roses to the fora. Kept those talking dried-up old maids at bay, and allowed room for folks to plunge in and grow themselves.

But hey - the night is still young, no? :)