Post #235860 by hanford_lemoore on Sun, Jun 4, 2006 3:14 PM

On 2006-06-04 10:41, hiltiki wrote:
Now this doesn't mean we didn't understand his point.

Well, it means you either didn't understand it, or understood it and ignored it.

However, maybe a flashing sign, should appear every time we tend to veer off the original topic and tell us to focus.

First and foremost, we should all try to automatically make this place easier to read and maintain to help our dear moderators out. The longer someone has been on TC the more I expect them to do the right thing without flashing signs. Because Tiki Central gets bigger with every post, it's really the only way this place is not going to collapse under it's own weight.

Secondly, warnings are difficult to give correctly. A month ago I warned some people about continually hassling a new TCer and to try and use PMs and it caused a bunch of whining ("we can't post what we want to anymore!!","Hanford is an evil dictator!" blah blah blah).

*On 2006-06-03 18:51, Thomas wrote:*It is not the interjection of a quick bit of humor such as, for example, a pun that comes to someone's mind during the course of a thread, or whatever. You're reading a fairly serious discussion of some topic and then someone makes some hilarious comment and you're laughing out loud. I couldn't agree more that that's one of the great pleasures of TC.

I agree with this too. I just think people need to look at the big picture when making posts like that: have five other people already posted basically the same joke? etc. I think we can all agree that there's times when a joke or off-topic comment works and is not distracting, and times where it is.