Elliot, I'm missing the point here

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Posted By: leon

Elliot and I had a long conversation yesterday about off-topic humor on the board. If you can open your minds a little and re-read his post he states his postion very well. I told this to BCD yesterday, on the phone, also. A little humor is great and there is no problem with that. When a good vintage thread goes to 25 posts and 14 of them are 1-2 liner off topic humor, good or bad, then we have basically formed a comic forum with vintage cards thrown in. Yes, most will not like my sentiments here but I totally agree with Elliot. I don't believe you will see EVERY bit of off topic humor get deleted. That would be stupid and I don't think that is what Elliot wants. I also know that we are not going to get into a pissing battle over this as I, for one, won't do it. I also have no say so on what gets done on OUR board in the editing or deleting dept. I was reading a few threads recently and most of them were one liner comic posts....that is not what I wanted to be reading. Like I said I wouldn't have minded a few but when MOST of a good thread turns to other topics I don't feel it's good.....you can disagree but I think a lot of the folks that want this to be a forum for "primarily vintage baseball cards" would agree, even though they probably won't post about it.....so keep the few humor bits coming, in my opinion, and let's try to stay on topic....otherwise, let's form a different board that is for "primarily humor" and ya'll can amuse us...best regards......(I can hear my phone/email ringing now )