Needamaser
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Part of the charm of being on here is going off on tangents and perhaps eventually coming back on topic.
However there are times when some may take offence or it may not be appropriate.
I was on a forum in the past which was very similar in nature to be on here. Lot of leg pulling and good natured abuse.
However there were complaints from time to time about thread drift especially concerning sale of vehicles or parts owned by forum members.
The forum owner decided to apply a "rule" that if someone started a thread and didn't want it going off topic, they would state on the thread title they were invoking his rule. Breach of that rule and the OP would ask a mod to remove any posts not specifically relating to that item.
Would that work here?
So for instance you put your car up for sale and you head it something like "Invoking Conaero's rule" to make it clear it remains on topic.
Any breaches and OP has right to ask for it to be removed.
One of the few complaints about this was sometimes the thread just died very quickly as no one was posting on it even if it was about shoes!
Thoughts?
However there are times when some may take offence or it may not be appropriate.
I was on a forum in the past which was very similar in nature to be on here. Lot of leg pulling and good natured abuse.
However there were complaints from time to time about thread drift especially concerning sale of vehicles or parts owned by forum members.
The forum owner decided to apply a "rule" that if someone started a thread and didn't want it going off topic, they would state on the thread title they were invoking his rule. Breach of that rule and the OP would ask a mod to remove any posts not specifically relating to that item.
Would that work here?
So for instance you put your car up for sale and you head it something like "Invoking Conaero's rule" to make it clear it remains on topic.
Any breaches and OP has right to ask for it to be removed.
One of the few complaints about this was sometimes the thread just died very quickly as no one was posting on it even if it was about shoes!
Thoughts?