Well, it's been a decent run on this board for me. I have had some good times.
It's not that this board is now going to be moderated that has given me cause to be believe that the fun is over, it's the manner in which it is, inevitably, going to be moderated.
Rather than confine the banter to one thread and let everyone walk a tightrope with every other thread, what should happen is that any thread should be off limits unless it is declared, by the creator of that thread to be open to banter.
That way, those sensitive posters who don't like the usual banter will be able to choose to stick to only those threads that have not declared a free-for-all. Better still, they will be able to create their own threads as "safe zones" in the comfort of knowing that anyone posting anything remotely like banter on them will be hit with a ban.
That would be the sensible and fairest way of dealing with these threads.
It would mean - also - that someone like me, who enjoys a lot of banter, could nonetheless choose to post a thread that is declared safe from the usual ****wittedness.
The way things have now been set up by brb, however, will mean that I am inevitably banned, since anything I write outside the one-and-only "wum thread" is going to be seen as provocation - regardless of the fact that it will only be same old ****wits who pile onto my comments claiming provocation. You folks know how this is going to go down, and I'm not going to hang around to watch it happen.
Therefore, rather than put myself through the circus, I am going to leave town.
I will post, every now and then, on the Spurs board - as I always do.
Cheers, folks. It's been nice crossing swords with you.
