Hi Mike,

>>Typo: I meant "would not see you over here". :-)
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>I thought so too, but its one of those "if I got time, I'll see if there's anything interesting" things, ya' know.
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>My main beef was posting 250 Election messages showed up in the Top 50 posters for the VFP forum and all that, and I thought it was just stupid how that worked. And the "I paid, so I get to say whatever I want to in this Technical forum" attitude? What the hell is that?
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>BTW, of the following in the rules page, what is allowed in chatter?
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>personal attacks
>political attacks
>religious attacks
>other group attacks
>malicious use of expletives or obscenities
>any use of expletives or obscenities in the title of a thread
>any use of profanity

I don't think that these rules should go away. I'm not particualrly interested in listening or reading the lowest common denominator responses from folks. I like a good strong discussion but when you get gratuitous remarks like "Bible thumping maniac" like I did it doesn't add much other than to reinfoece the notion that the 'flinger' of said mud has, as the old Chinese proverb staes, 'lost ground.'

I say have good discussions here to avoid cluttering up the regular forum but for goodness sakes let's keep it as civil as possible.

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>I say since this is non-technical Forum, that the profanity rules don't apply in this forum. Just a suggestion, wondering what everyone else and the UT Staff thinks.

I'd really rather not throw away the non-profanity stuff. Personally, the way I see it is that if someone is so limited in their use of the English language that they need to use profanity to communicate - why bother with them. They are obviously sub-par thinkers. (IMO)

Now that ought to generate some responses. <g>