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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cptg1481" data-source="post: 826002" data-attributes="member: 5360">I have read (and re-read) this entire thread a couple of times now and I think that for the most part the dialogue is excellent. Mr Noah...,Just to clear up the difference between what I said and what I ment (the difference between the two is often shocking even to me) when I opined that the mods could better serve the boards by policing for civility as aggressively as they do with regards to the "no polotics rule".  I guess what I was thinking was that if every once in a while the mods could shoot a personal reminder to those who tend to throw out the derogitory terms and call people names names it would buy a lot of mileage in paybacks with an increase in the civlility of the boards.  I regarded the reminder about my sig very seriously and appriciated that it was brought to my attention.  I saw the reason behind it and felt that if it was serious enough for someone to type a few lines to me about it then I needed to take a second look at what and how I was posting affected others.  Perhaps my military life has made me look at things a little tougher but I considered the reminder a threat (nnot negeatevely in any way, just a statement of fact) that if I made a habit of this I'd loose my posting priv's.  I mean I had less than a hundered posts yet somehow the presence of AL's mug in my survey results warented a personal e-mail to me from a mod asking that I remove it. Fair enough....the mods are right.   That's what I's saying here...the mods won't have to determine intent or read into anything....calling someone a troll (founded or not), a munchkin or other things that we all consider derogitory is fairly plain to see.  While I agree that telling the offender should be sufficient to achieve satisfaction sadly it's not always enough.  However, a polite but firm reminder from a mod via e-mail may just be what it takes to get someone to reconsider the tone of thier posting.   It's a suggestion nothing more, no implication that I was singled out or anything like it, I just think that some folks may need to be reminded, descreetly, via e-mail if necessary that the mods are on to the name calling and that it is an issue.  I think that the mileage we'd get in terms of civility on the boards would be excellent indeed.</blockquote>

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