Welcome, and a few basic rules.
Jun 19, 2017 16:59:53 GMT -5
Post by William Smith on Jun 19, 2017 16:59:53 GMT -5
Welcome! As those of you who are the early users of the forum already know, I set this up as an alternative to the Amazon.com Movie Forum. Many of us think that the days for Amazon's Customer Forums are numbered; we have already seen Amazon stripping away functionality, and aggressively censoring posts--not, however, with any consistency. In addition, the quality of discourse has declined precipitously. A kind of Gresham's Law--bad posts drive out good--has been at work.
I have no desire to do anything but to create a forum for the discussion of film and allied subjects, and I have absolutely no desire to try and actively monitor everything said here. I have not enabled any list of prohibited words. Any forum member can start threads and respond to any thread. I have disabled upvoting and downvoting--express your agreement or disagreement actively. I am setting up several boards to start with; a general film discussion, an off topic board, and a board for discussing other aspects of the arts--music, the visual arts, theater, and so forth.
I will impose only two rules. First, no overt political discussion. I will delete any overly political thread immediately. Anyone making partisan political comments will be warned twice, and thereafter banned. Second, I am old enough not to feel odd in saying that I expect all to behave like ladies and gentlemen. If I don't do so, anyone should feel free to censure me, and I hope everyone will censor themselves.
There, that shouldn't be terribly difficult!
I've set up a few introductory topics in the boards. They may not be "The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire", but -- DISCUSS!!
I have no desire to do anything but to create a forum for the discussion of film and allied subjects, and I have absolutely no desire to try and actively monitor everything said here. I have not enabled any list of prohibited words. Any forum member can start threads and respond to any thread. I have disabled upvoting and downvoting--express your agreement or disagreement actively. I am setting up several boards to start with; a general film discussion, an off topic board, and a board for discussing other aspects of the arts--music, the visual arts, theater, and so forth.
I will impose only two rules. First, no overt political discussion. I will delete any overly political thread immediately. Anyone making partisan political comments will be warned twice, and thereafter banned. Second, I am old enough not to feel odd in saying that I expect all to behave like ladies and gentlemen. If I don't do so, anyone should feel free to censure me, and I hope everyone will censor themselves.
There, that shouldn't be terribly difficult!
I've set up a few introductory topics in the boards. They may not be "The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire", but -- DISCUSS!!