Not sure I am considered a chartered member or not, and frankly to me I don't care either way, but I did participate on the old mIRC chat and MSN site on a regular basis so I have been around for some time.
For the most part, people posting here behave themselves when I compare this to other sites. They keep on topic of old single shots and the keeping, loading and shooting them. Overall a friendly exchange. Like someone else said, in any serious hobby, opinions are sometime very strongly put. Having this a typed exchange most voice inflections are lost and someone percieves a challenge to thier opinion or experience. This is where it goes offtrack and one of us moderators has to shut the discussion down, or in bad cases removes someones post to limit the fuel to the fire. It's not something done haphazzardly or taken lightly by myself and I think the other moderators too. My usual proceedure is to PM offenders who posted material removed and let them know why. Some people after rereading thier post decide to remove thier own post, which anyone can do BTW. Then of course the moderators are immediately suspected of doing that. So be it.
Anyway, I think the forum is a good mix of topics. If you don't want to enter a particular section, don't. That is your choice but my opinion is to leave all that is here alone. I do like the idea of a lighter section for stories, tastful jokes, recipies etc though.
Anyway, I'll shut up now and learn something new about single shots! But beware...."the shadow knows!"(insert manicial laughter)
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