Jay, does that imply that we're friends again?

>Bravo!
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>>The title says it all. After days of having seen all that non desired stuff on the Chatter forum, if we cannot obtain a professional behavior of all members who use it, we will simply remove it from the Universal Thread. I am sick and tired of people who try to destroy the image of each other or even worst, the image of this Web site. I am not the only one. I have received more emails in the last week about people moving away from this site, about people who wish I would ban everyone, about people who expect me to read all the messages and such. This site is used by professionals. I expect the behavior of each and everyone of us to be as is, so should it be in the Chatter forum as well.
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>>I am also sick and tired about people sharing their account with individuals that are not authorized to use it, as per our Terms & Conditions. So is the case about people who bypasses the validation rules by using tags, weird characters or any other mechanisms to have sensitive words to find their way in their messages. So is the case with people who try to remain border line about what we tolerate against what we do not tolerate. So is the case about people who bombards me with emails asking me to resolve all the problems we have on this planet but cannot point me exatly about what they think the problem is. So is the case about people complaining about other people, when sending emails to me, but are doing exactly the same thing on the site, or worst. So is the case about background conspiracy to bring this site down simply because they have a personal problem with another member, this site, me, my family or else. So is the case about people using a double identity. So is the case
>>about people submitting false information in their profile. So is the case about people doing personal attacks on the place of location of the member, the native language of the member and such..
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>>We will not negotiate. Period!
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>>The Chatter forum came after a request of several members. But, if people continues to use it in ways that are against the site rules, it will be removed as fast as it has been created. In such an event, the Chatter category would also be removed from all forums. The rules of the site will be adjusted to its simplest format stating that the site content will be geared towards technical content only and that it would then be stricly forbidded to submit non technical content, at the exception of technical related events such as conferences and user groups. A red note would then be added at the creation of any new message stating the same. One who would not abid by that rule, will be simply banned.
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>>Is this what we really want?
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>>Following this post, if I find that people are still continuing to break the rules, this is what will happen. I understand the VFP community was once the greatest developers community around. Well, I have to say, as most of those involved are coming from that background, that I am no longer putting my vote for that. No matter how frustrated some members could be, there are absolutely no excuse to adopt such kind of attitude on this site. This site should be friendly to use without having members leaving the site because of intidation of everything in regards to that, which by the same causes a decrease of revenues on this site. Everytime this is happending, we loose a lot of members, money and time to work across those issues. This is enough! Enough is enough!
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>>I will not reply to this thread. Note also that there will be no announcement of such an event. If people using this site are not capable of behaving accordingly to the site rules, I will remove and forbid all types of non related technical content such as expressed earlier in this message.