Quote Originally Posted by eclipsesmommy View Post
ACTUALLY...
i was merely voicing my FEEDBACK about people giving attitude and being rude on this forum and suggesting that administrators should discourage being rude and offensive as much as they do cussing. for example, grow up? how about trying to understand my true reasoning for making this thread instead of jumping to conclusions and talking down to me? after all the thread is called "attitude" not "omg you guys suck for slapping me on the wrist!!"
and yeah i signed on just to post this reply
I will reiterate what Derek said:

We can try and enforce the rules as best we can but we cannot make everyone act friendly all the time - we can suggest it, and we can infract if they go beyond the level allowed by the rules, but that is really all we can do.
How would you suggest that we subjectively infract "rude"? What I consider rude may be completely different from what you consider rude. Heck, we took away the bear baiting infraction, because it was essentially undefine-able. WE knew what we considered bear baiting, but trying to explain to the site exactly where that line was, was impossible to do.

With over 12K registered members on this site, and a volunteer staff of less than 20, we can't make people be nice to each other all the time. We do step in and tell people to knock it off when it gets beyond what the staff agrees is acceptable, or it gets sent to Quarantine to allow those not getting along to "duke it out" in a hidden forum, so that guests, new members and even veterans don't have to see it if they don't want to (access to the QT room is strictly by request only, and we have many veterans who have NOT asked for access, because it's not their cup of tea).

We do appreciate your feedback, and it's not something that the staff hasn't discussed in the past, but until someone can figure out a way to make 12K personalities all see things eye to eye, the best we can do is monitor and SUGGEST that people try to be nicer to each other.