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Forum Decorum
Yahoo Message Number: 47530
So, Gentle Folk, do I understand that a list will be soon be published declaring what topics on this forum are acceptable and which ones are not? What happens when a newcomer arrives and innocently inquires about a forbidden topic? Will he be ignored by members who fear the topic police? Will he be declared anathema and banished to an FAQ? Who gets to decide which topics are repetitive, annoying or irritating?

I, for one, think any topic or post relating to life with a Lazy Daze rv is appropriate so long as it does not violate accepted norms of decency and civility.

There is no rule that a group member is required to read each and every post. If a member is bothered by a repetitive topic it seems to me that reading the Subject: line carefully and applying a little self-control with the mouse button is more considerate than chastizing other members and attempting to dictate which topics are allowed on the forum and which topics are not.

Just MHO, NH Paul
Re: Forum Decorum
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Yahoo Message Number: 47534
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So, Gentle Folk, do I understand that a list will be soon be published declaring what topics on this forum are acceptable and which ones are not? What happens when a newcomer arrives and innocently inquires about a forbidden topic?

I, for one, think any topic or post relating to life with a Lazy Daze rv is appropriate so long as it does not violate accepted
norms  of decency and civility.

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Just MHO, NH Paul
Paul, I think you hit a homerun! And you probably weren't using steroids either! But the mere fact that I agree with you, may make you a member of the "grump club".

Those who want to limit or control topics might want to take a look at how some of the other groups work. If you take a look at the Born Free Owners' group, sometimes known as Leapin' Lions, you'll see they probably average one or two posts per day. We do more in a day than they do in a typical month!  Maybe we're just more interesting people though! Or more helpful! Or more tolerant than most. I know for sure that I have learned more from this site than from any other website.
From Apple iPods to coffee brewing without electricity, to levelers and yes even tire stems and (sorry, I can't think of a topic with a Z) to winterizing. And I've made some very good friends along the way. Lets talk Tire stems!

Steve K.
Steve K

2003 Mid-bath
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Forum Decorum
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Yahoo Message Number: 47538
At 02:45 PM 12/9/2004 +0000, you wrote:

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There is no rule that a group member is required to read each and every post.
I'm not an old-timer here, so I'm probably not in a position to chime in on what others consider to be dead horses by the side of the digital road, but IMO this is the best advice on the subject of dead subjects.
 I also think that FAQs on very popular topics are also a great idea (and thanks, Andy, for encouraging people to develop them). That way, newcomers can read up on a subject first, and if they still have questions or comments, they are free to post to the list. There will always be someone who wants to respond (and probably several someones).
 I'm a faithful daily reader, and will follow almost any thread, at least for a little while. But I have no problem with wholesale deletions (from my incoming mail, NOT the newsgroup itself) of subjects that have run their course as far as I'm concerned. I'll never be a coffee gourmet (remember how lengthy those threads were?), the intricacies of electric system repair are beyond me, and I think I now know everything I need or want to know about tire stems, valves, and associated issues.
 BUT...I don't consider any of these topics to be a waste of bandwidth (a saying that is practically an antique these days), and I would never want to stifle the ongoing flow of conversation. I just delete or skip over the subjects I'm not interested in.
 How about creating the best of both worlds by allowing topics to develop and die according to reader/writer interest, AND having a set of FAQs about all-time high-interest subjects that we can refer newcomers to?

Sonsie
Re: Forum Decorum
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Yahoo Message Number: 47557
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"So, Gentle Folk, do I understand that a list will be soon be published declaring what topics on this forum are acceptable and which ones are not?"
Geez, Paul! This is not personal! You weren't attacked personnally in no way !
 This is a discussion forum, which includes, with decorum, as yourself wrote, the right to disagree, to have opinions and manifest them at will! This is America, the berth of democracy ! (even if I'm not there just now)
 Neither Lorna, or me suggested in any way, to publish a list of what is acceptable or not, and if you understood that our opinions were the preview of a list of acceptability, your way of understanding is really very creative, because it's not our idea, it's your's.

Here, in this group, I feel myself between friends, and is exactly between friends that we have the freedom do expose our feelings without the funereal rules of a brittish gentlemen's 19th century club...
Friend discuss, agree, disagree, and find a way to do things better...
And then go home, still friends, perhaps even more. That's what we are trying to say, and to do, even if in our colorful mode.

Unfortunately, we aren't sit together in the same table, drinking a beer or a coke, and discussing, even passionately, because if we were, all this misunderstanding wouldn't happen!
 This is the better group in the net,(by the way, we are number three in Yahoo, now), but there's allways room for improvement, and I think that everybody can agree at least with that.

Let's find a way, not fight this way...

Eudoro "God bless Queen Victoria" Lemos, Jr.
 PS. By the way, Steve, the "K", of chilly but happy days in Ohio, we disagreed again, but this time, our friendship wasn't even scratched!
 
Re: Forum Decorum
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Yahoo Message Number: 47622
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I know for sure that I have learned more from this site than from any other
website.

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From Apple iPods to coffee brewing without electricity, to levelers and yes even tire stems and (sorry, I can't think of a topic with a Z) to winterizing.

Steve K.
"Zerk" fittings ....

-Victor