I have a few comments on DANTE's "Locked".
I guess you guys didn't think I could have anything intelligent to say, because I was never invited to your conversations. However, I'll put my two cents in on this thread, which really shouldn't have been necessary to create to reply to "Locked", but it was locked.
It sounds like DANTE is considering deleting the entire "Free for All" forum, because of bashing that has been going on in some threads.
First of all the idea of having a "Free for All" forum was originally
DANTE's on the old "ScaRatings". Back then I posted that I didn't think it was a good idea, for the very reasons he is having trouble with now. However, once the "Free for All" forum began and grew, I liked it. It gave me an opportunity to talk about silly things such as old computer games, memories of the past, songs that I had listened to, obscure movies that I liked, goofy stuff on the "Chip the Bartender" thread, enjoying the two threads created by ICEMAN ("Ban the Person Above You", and "Post Baseless Lies About the Person Above You"), also having fun with YODA's "Trivia Chain" thread. The "Birthday Thread" has also been a fun place for quite a few of us, who still admit to growing older. There are many more threads that good people post to on the "Free for All" forum that could in no way be considered objectionalble, offensive, or insulting to anyone in their right mind. To deep six all of these benign threads to eliminate one or two cancerous ones, would be foolish at best. Worse yet, it would be a tremendous slap in the face to all of those good people, who spent more than a little of their time posting to the "Free for All" forum to see all of their work, and all of the time they put into it, flushed down the toilet by someone reacting to jerks, just because they share the same forum.
I have heard that some have complained to DANTE about my posts. Dang, I don't think any of them were nasty. However, I am disappointed in those, who sent private messages about them to DANTE, intstead of sending me those private messages. Hell, I'm easy, and do not like confrontation. If one of my posts upset you, I would gladly have deleted it in a heartbeat. (I have actually gone back, and deleted some of my posts, without anyone complaining, but because I thought they might have been an inch or two over the line. Why cause trouble, when it's not necessary...?
Though not consulted, I have difficulty finding the problem with all of this. When anyone signs on to the "ScaRatings" they are told up front that NO BASHING IS ALLOWED! How could anyone in their right mind not understand that...? NO BASHING IS NO BASHING, and I strongly feel that those, who violate this rule should be banned, and their bashing posts should be deleted. Should they be given a chance to come back...? Yeah, I think so, but if they bash anyone again, I say send them to Davy Jones' Locker forever.