[quote name=\'xavier45\' post=\'145754\' date=\'Feb 9 2007, 07:33 PM\']
[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'145753\' date=\'Feb 9 2007, 07:21 PM\']
It seems that you're upset not because we allegedly treat people poorly for not meeting our standards right off the bat, but because we have standards in the first place.
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Yes that is it. Give new people a chance to get to the Rules of the forum.
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Do you realize that you just contradicted yourself? But then, you're not consistent about how "bad" the GSN board is, so this isn't surprising.
Most new people don't even pay attention to the rules. Again I was not trying to be mean. I just want you guys to give the newbies here a little time to get used to stuff. I like the three strikes rule, but just don't do it right away.
Let's see... you "know" how bad the GSN board is... and yet you want us to be more like it. And we should have rules but not enforce them... because the "bad" GSN board does the same thing. Er... no.
I'll remind you again that, in the earlier post of yours to which I linked, we'd explicitly said that dad1153 kept breaking rules
after being reminded several times -- and you criticized us anyway. The fact is that you don't want anyone to have to follow the rules here no matter what. Sorry, but that's not going to happen. Most of us are adults and we expect that our members will behave like adults. (That is, after all, the first of
our rules -- you know, the ones you want us to have but not enforce.) And adults, unless they're in politics, follow the rules.