GENTELMEN- You are ALL being put on notice NOW! THIS TOPIC IS THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW MEMBER, AND REGARDS MEMBER'S AGE GROUP! Deablo is welcomed as a new member here on the TrainBoard. As long as he follows the RULES he agreed to when he signed in, he will remain welcome. Ralph, you agreed to those same rules. You have NOT followed them! We do NOT appreciate anyone who wishes to criticize any other member on this TrainBoard for any reason, at any time! Stop this harrassment NOW or this Topic will be CLOSED. Go read the terms of your continued membership granted when you chose to join us here in our FRIENDLY group! Disparaging remarks about other members CAN be cause to justify the cancellation of your membership here! If your motives are to start flame wars here, you are barking up the wrong tree! You have offended members here! That is not tolerated! Appologies are in order and expected to be accepted ! [ 20. October 2002, 05:16: Message edited by: watash ]
Deablo and any new members from RR-Line, welcome. As you can see from Watash's response, trainboard is more heavily moderated than other forums. We had some "head cases" about a year or two ago which "poisoned" the atmosphere here for a bit, so all the mods want to keep it a fun place to be. You are allowed to disagree, offer alternatives, etc as long as it doesn't get personal. There is some concern that some of the "issues" will be brought over from RR-Line as happened at the Atlas site. To be up front with you, that will be stopped quickly. Now I will move away from the heavy. You will discover this is a friendly site, with a more international flavour than many forums. We are all the same on all the forums, we want to talk about trains, model railroading, some acceptable off topics, show pics for bragging rights of great prototypical shots, modeling efforts and layout pics. This is a good time to join if you like posting pictures as we have a new forum open for this very enterprise (and it is free). So if you are prepared to be mellow and happy this is a good home to have. Welcome all!
No need to "shout", Watash. I hope Ralph Otis is still a member, is he? I trust I haven't broken any rules in this message. best regards / Mike
Mike you can click on his email and ask him. You haven't broken any rules that I am aware of, we just have rules against berating or making snide remarks about other members. If he had a complaint, he should have emailed me off line, not flame another member in front of the whole membership!
