General Reply to all:
-Everyone is free to make a suggestion, however to expect that only replies supporting it will be made wouldnt make much sense. A feature suggestion may be made with one intent from the poster, but general views on other issues surrounding that suggestion and other effects it could have do have merit. To say a feature could lead to blahblah by someone isnt a personal insult to whoever posted it. Just because someone doesnt like a reply, or points out bad aspects of it, there's no need to take it personally and take your rubber duckie and go home.
-Personally i try to give everyone a good bit of leeway in their posts. When i see someone tossing in a political slur, i shake my head wondering why they think that has any remote support to their arguement. I toss it into the same bin that the "i love windows, i hate *nix" "anyone who uses blahblah is silly, use blahblah" "why do you use slang" into. Everyone has opinions, some just dont realize there is a time and place to air them. Now, if someone started a thread "Why i hate <insert politician/country name here> i would delete it as being inappropriate for this forum. Do i like that some ppl use every remote excuse to climb up on their soapbox about a politician/country/etc diatribe? No, and i find it annoying and a waste of time. Tells me a lot about the poster's intent and how much credence to give their replies tho.
-i dont care about what country ignores or approves of filesharing music/movies/software, or the multitude of reasons why any given person thinks its just peachy. Illegal file sharing is not supported or encouraged on this forum. End of discussion.
-Yes, ppl can get into just as much trouble clicking on urls on their browser or email as on IRC. But if by popping up msgs informing them of the risks or warning them in channels or here, or limiting some features, we can stop a few, its worth it and will hopefully make them carry the warnings over to their email and browser wanderings. To think why bother cause they can get into trouble using other things isnt much of a helping attitude.
-When ppl cant stay on focus and the thread winds down into bickering, flames, or irrelevant arguements without any redeeming value, that thread will be closed. If anyone wants to consider that censorship, too bad.
