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- Thread starter Micah
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What, someone questions the quality of my recipe posts? I would post more but again the potential for them being deleted is annoying and counter productive to the forum. A lot of the people in here do in fact need them. Good food makes you healthy and adds quality to your life. I do want to post more recipes...perhaps if I can get a site going for them it would be then worthwhile to link to them daily as I get them put up. Anyone up for that?
Onion, if you cen get recipes posted somewhere, I know that some of us would definitly make use of them. Especially those of us like me who are stuck living in a dorm. (Commons food gets real old real quick.)
Good Lord!
Go buy a cookbook already!
The reason why the recipe thread got deleted is because this is a paintball forum, not a cookery forum. And healthy food is only very marginally related to paintball. Nothing personal, it's just that the moderators are trying to keep things on topic a little bit more.
If people want to heve a site with recipes on, fine. Put a link to it in your signature, nothing wrong with that. But please keep this forum about the one thing that is way more interesting than any cooking....you know, paintball! (and anybody who knows me knows that I love good food, so I ain't biased)
Go buy a cookbook already!
The reason why the recipe thread got deleted is because this is a paintball forum, not a cookery forum. And healthy food is only very marginally related to paintball. Nothing personal, it's just that the moderators are trying to keep things on topic a little bit more.
If people want to heve a site with recipes on, fine. Put a link to it in your signature, nothing wrong with that. But please keep this forum about the one thing that is way more interesting than any cooking....you know, paintball! (and anybody who knows me knows that I love good food, so I ain't biased)
My point was more about why pick on the recipes when there are plenty of other threads that aren't related to paintball, or at least big chunks of them that aren't. Plus some of the undeleted stuff is only of interest to the 2 people posting, while other stuff that's gone is interesting to quite a few. I just can't work out exactly what the criteria are for deleting posts/threads.
I think Liz has a good point.
Outside the downright offensive ones, the mods only started deleting those threads which they thought were bringing the 'tone' down ie the juvenile stuff.
Personally, a genuinely funny non-paintball-related thread is fine by me, however, the sticking point comes when you've got quite a few mods with differing views on what is 'funny'.
I guess it's all about 'balance': a recipe thread amongst 100 paintball threads is ok; 50 recipes & 50 paintball and you've got an identity problem.
From a mod point of view, the whole criteria has got to be 'does this thread best promote the site'.
Outside the downright offensive ones, the mods only started deleting those threads which they thought were bringing the 'tone' down ie the juvenile stuff.
Personally, a genuinely funny non-paintball-related thread is fine by me, however, the sticking point comes when you've got quite a few mods with differing views on what is 'funny'.
I guess it's all about 'balance': a recipe thread amongst 100 paintball threads is ok; 50 recipes & 50 paintball and you've got an identity problem.
From a mod point of view, the whole criteria has got to be 'does this thread best promote the site'.
Rancid, that's spot on!
It was just getting to the point that it was hard to read anything other than recipes.
I don't mind the odd dribble, but we have to keep this forum focused on paintball. When we (me and the other mods) see that the 'oi Johnny, you'ze a ****a!' threads are getting out of hand, we'd do something about that too.
Personally (getting to interpreting what is funny) I haven't deleted any of the funny threads, not even when I thought that they weren't funny (after all, my sense of humour may differ from yours). I just figured (and so did some of the other mods) that a cooking class wasn't funny, and had nothing to do with paintball.
The problem is that a number of people have now spent so much time on this board, that we 'get to know eachother' a bit, so it's easy to start talking about trivial and pointless stuff, like you do with your buddies. But we have to keep this in check, because otherwise (and this has been pointed out before) new visitors are going to think that we are a bit sectlike and they will be reluctant to get involved.
Hope this clears things up a little.
It was just getting to the point that it was hard to read anything other than recipes.
I don't mind the odd dribble, but we have to keep this forum focused on paintball. When we (me and the other mods) see that the 'oi Johnny, you'ze a ****a!' threads are getting out of hand, we'd do something about that too.
Personally (getting to interpreting what is funny) I haven't deleted any of the funny threads, not even when I thought that they weren't funny (after all, my sense of humour may differ from yours). I just figured (and so did some of the other mods) that a cooking class wasn't funny, and had nothing to do with paintball.
The problem is that a number of people have now spent so much time on this board, that we 'get to know eachother' a bit, so it's easy to start talking about trivial and pointless stuff, like you do with your buddies. But we have to keep this in check, because otherwise (and this has been pointed out before) new visitors are going to think that we are a bit sectlike and they will be reluctant to get involved.
Hope this clears things up a little.
Also, help the newbies out! Don't try to be the mysterious pro player no-one can touch. That guarantees people will stick around.
Try being friendly with everyone or the mods shall force you to discuss quantum mechanics with SYTRAXZ.
