Originally Posted by FBinNY

To members here on LCF who would like to see changes.

Be careful what you wish for, lest.....

There's nothing wrong with LCF as conceived and as described in the category heading. The forum doesn't need changing, conduct does. We shouldn't fool ourselves into believing that changes in the definition will change conduct, because it won't change how people act.

To the Mods.

Instead of changing the forum in ways that will be hard to define and control, maybe you can consider some basic forum rules of conduct, to wit;

Classify Trolling, defined narrowly as posting on a forum in a way that's generally insulting of it's membership, analogous to posting bout the joys of a good sirloin on a vegan forum.

Create a 3-strike rule whereby repeat posting of the same general idea is limited to 3 times (in the thread)after which someone cannot come back to the same thread unless he has something new, or XX number of posts have gone by. That may reduce some of the progressively acrimonious back and forth posts between 2 or 3 people we see so often on a variety of sub-forums.

Of course, neither of the above will really change anything, but they will provide Mods with tools (and threats) to shut down the worst stuff before it goes too far. Long term, accumulated warnings under your points system may help weed out the problems (people)..