[iceman (Mike)]

A friendly reminder or two..

1) Please keep spam and off-topic stuff out of informative equipment discussions or other threads. The moderators and I generally do very little in terms of moderation cause you guys generally play fair and nice, but occassionally a few people will get on a roll replying to each other with spam and off-topic stuff and the thread turns from informative to the point where people will stop reading it. If there's anything interesting at the end of the thread, i'm sure it never gets read.

Most friendly banter is fine, and we let most of it slide.. but if you feel the need to "chat", get on skype or IRC or something.

2) The censored-word filter is there for a reason, please don't try and bypass it by mis-spelling the word or substituting a number instead of a letter. I know most of us are adults and aren't offended, but this is a family site and we have members younger than 16, and I know for a fact that some people are offended. So please, just don't do it. There's absolutely no need for anyone to swear to get their point across.

I know it's annoying when you're trying to type "d.ick smith", but I'm happy to accept that.


We have almost 400 members now, and it is going to continue on growing, so we all have to be mindful of the posting guidelines to ensure that things don't spiral out of control as the membership, and therefore daily post count, increases.

Most of the time the community moderates itself which is great, but the next step will be asking the moderators to start clamping down on spam and other things a bit harder. Let's not let it get to that.

Now there's no "naughty corner", noone is in trouble.. just a friendly reminder.

Happy to hear your feedback or thoughts, either here or via PM.