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I guess all my years spent in Catholic school has something to do with this. Those nuns and their talent for innovative ways of torturing a child's mind. Anyway, a post on a recent thread got me going on this.
While we had been able to "police ourselves" in the past, we may have gotten large and diverse enough to make this impossible. Much more tension and lack of civility on the forum of late, with the very slightest (or at times without) provocation.
It may be useful to institute some form of "punishment" for conduct unbecoming, somewhere between warning PM's from the mods and being banned. So here are my top 5, in honor of those ruler-wielding, veiled disciples of Torquemada.
Have fun...
#5 THE FINE (aka the collection basket) - $5 per violation. You have one week to pay, after which you will be locked out of RFF until you remit your payment. Simple 'nuf to start off the list.
#4 THE DUNCE CAP - Following the nuns' penchant for public humiliation, and age-appropriate for the childish behavior of late (including this thread) your avatar will be replaced with a dunce-cap avatar for one week, so people will know what a, er, dunce (duh) you are.
#3 PURGATORY - You are only allowed to access, for a period of one week, photos and threads on lens tests, so you may analyze every little nuance of the 50mm as your penance.
#2 THE GAG (as in "bound and gagged") - you are automatically added to everyone else's ignore list for one week. You can talk all you want, but no one will be able to hear you.
#1 THE BLINDFOLD (aka excommunication) - All the members are automatically added to your ignore list. You can log on, but you can't see any posts.
Tied for #1 is THE GRANOVSKI - For one week, you can only access threads started by Frank G, under his various noms de plume.
While we had been able to "police ourselves" in the past, we may have gotten large and diverse enough to make this impossible. Much more tension and lack of civility on the forum of late, with the very slightest (or at times without) provocation.
It may be useful to institute some form of "punishment" for conduct unbecoming, somewhere between warning PM's from the mods and being banned. So here are my top 5, in honor of those ruler-wielding, veiled disciples of Torquemada.
Have fun...
#5 THE FINE (aka the collection basket) - $5 per violation. You have one week to pay, after which you will be locked out of RFF until you remit your payment. Simple 'nuf to start off the list.
#4 THE DUNCE CAP - Following the nuns' penchant for public humiliation, and age-appropriate for the childish behavior of late (including this thread) your avatar will be replaced with a dunce-cap avatar for one week, so people will know what a, er, dunce (duh) you are.
#3 PURGATORY - You are only allowed to access, for a period of one week, photos and threads on lens tests, so you may analyze every little nuance of the 50mm as your penance.
#2 THE GAG (as in "bound and gagged") - you are automatically added to everyone else's ignore list for one week. You can talk all you want, but no one will be able to hear you.
#1 THE BLINDFOLD (aka excommunication) - All the members are automatically added to your ignore list. You can log on, but you can't see any posts.
Tied for #1 is THE GRANOVSKI - For one week, you can only access threads started by Frank G, under his various noms de plume.
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