My early Net54 Holiday wish –

[Exhibitman]

if someone is a PITA whose posts just make your teeth grind, block them. I did that with a member who is the perfect blend of obnoxious and ignorant and I've found this to be much more fun since. And if he ever posts something worth reading and responding to, someone else usually quotes it and does so, so I don't think I miss much besides the brain farts.

Leon, LTS isn't secret, just private. Kinda like a speakeasy...

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

if someone is a PITA whose posts just make your teeth grind, block them. I did that with a member who is the perfect blend of obnoxious and ignorant and I've found this to be much more fun since. And if he ever posts something worth reading and responding to, someone else usually quotes it and does so, so I don't think I miss much besides the brain farts.

Leon, LTS isn't secret, just private. Kinda like a speakeasy...

Adam my friend of many years,
The blocking of members is good all the way up to me . Sorry.

Hey, if LTS is private or secret or whatever they want to be, it's a great thing. I am friends of many of them and we coexist perfectly. I am on a few other chatboards myself. I also take several car magazines at home. Diversity is good. All I want is world peace and happiness. Should be no big deal. After that I just want a place to congregate and talk cards with friends and other hobbyists of the same nature. It should be a friendly place as much as it can be. Almost all decisions made concerning the board will have naysayers on both sides. It is what it is, so they say. You know how it goes....

[hangman62]

I agree with OP,

It can get very nasty very quickly

but those 10,00 viewed posts, the bashing, name calling..its somewhat entertaining...not really " nice" but entertaining...the worse thing is you often need to go thru dozens of off topic posts..to get back to the fireworks between a few guys

I don't mind it so much

[Snapolit1]

Go spend a few minutes on a board about a particular sports team, or a politician, or any one of a million subject matters and come back here and tell me this is a rough area with rude people. . . . .c'mon. Find the nicest story you can find on the internet ("9 year old girl saves father's life choking to death on a plum pit") and read the comments. You will lose the will to live very quickly. Someone will say it has something to with how terrible Trump is, someone will tie it to Hillary, and a bunch of other folks will make horrible comments of other types about the father and the young person. If you find the level of discourse here to be rude and disturbing . . . .I really don't know what to say other than you must not spend a lot of time on the Internet.

There is of course some rancor and sarcasm and occasionally some low level ball busting . . . but it all seems pretty mild and overwhelmingly civil to me.