Since we all got warned by our moderator about keeping our posts on here topical to “gunsmithing†I was wondering about the ongoing thread here discussing what type of oil to use in ones car?????

I guess since no one on that thread has questioned anything said by the moderator then it‘s considered to be “topical.â€

I am sure Jeff will give you his input on this.

We are trying to keep all posts on these forums indefinitely - we used to cull posts over a certain period of time in the past, and several members complained about that.

Because of this, we have to go through a sort of "cleaning up" of each forum every now and then. This takes time, which none of us here really likes to do.

As you all know. AR is a free website, we have no adverts to either destract or preferential treatment given to those who advertise - as I have seen on other shooting related forums.

All the Moderators have kindly volunteered their time free of charge to help run these forums because of their dedication to shooting and hunting.

So by keeping your posts related to the subject of the relative forum, you are helping us in our efforts. This is something we all would appreciate.

Thanks, Saeed.

I’m sure everyone is appreciative of this free web site, I know I am, but as a newer member here I am having a bit of trouble keeping track of all these rules and policies that don’t seem to have much consistency to them.

Threads on a gunsmithing topic get moved to misc. then up pops which motor oil to use in your car and Christmas Moose stories and they stay?

Just a bit confusing I guess.

I’m not a web site expert by any stretch of the imagination, but what is the worst thing that could happen if there were no moderators?

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I was wondering about the ongoing thread here discussing what type of oil to use in ones car?????

note the style in which the author made the post- obviously, he was having some fun.

tin can,

The attempt at humor wasn’t lost on me, but that just further confuses the issue as far as I can see.

Obviously, the moderator felt so strongly about this that he posted a warning about it that heads the page, and he has been PMing members warning them not to post “off topic†and he has been deleting posts and moving threads over to the Misc forum that he decided were “off topic.â€

It just seemed strange that the only threads that he considered to be “off topic†on his forum were ones where members were questioning things he had posted about gunsmithing, while threads on Christmas Moose and car oil get left right where they are.

I’m just trying to figure out what the rules are and to whom they apply and don’t apply, and I think it’s becoming pretty clear.

fyj, you are stirring the pot and you know it. This has nothing to do with on topic, it has to do with you taking, yet another, swipe at the moderator and it is tiring.

If you want to talk guns and their making and repair then do so. If you want to continue being a prick please go elsewhere.

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Originally posted by duikerman:
fyj, you are stirring the pot and you know it. This has nothing to do with on topic, it has to do with you taking, yet another, swipe at the moderator and it is tiring.

If you want to talk guns and their making and repair then do so. If you want to continue being a prick please go elsewhere.

If anyone would know about stirring the pot and being a prick that would be you duikerman. You should follow your own advise.

FYJ,

Since you are new here. Should you feel a thread is not topical, please PM me with the link and I'll review.


Other than this, I believe the site owner, Saeed, has summed this up very well.

Have a nice day.


jeffe

oh, PS

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Originally posted by fyj
Since we all got warned by our moderator about keeping our posts on here topical to “gunsmithingâ€

Actually, if we are using the same language, the word please is a request
as in the post

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Originally posted by jeffeosso
Please keep your posts topical to gunsmithing

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Originally posted by malm:
If anyone would know about stirring the pot and being a prick that would be you duikerman. You should follow your own advise.

Malm, don't let your mind wander, it's too small to be out on it's own!

Regardless of how the very few rules are enforced

(really, "all of these rules and policies" doesn't even qualify as a stretch so much as a total fabrication. what's the actual list? post on topic, don't post things that create a legal problem for the site, don't get out of hand with cursing somebody and their family. If I were in charge it would include things like being filthy liars, being stupid....probably the reason I'm not given authority)

the fact is if we are smart enoguh to use a computer we should be smart enough to read a section heading and know what goes there. If I have a question about picking a .338 bore cartridge I won't put it in big bores. I think one thing the site owner and administrators have been great about (again, I wouldn't have done it) is creating lots and lots of different sections for every thing under the sun and very much off topic of firearms and hunting.

I understand the difficulty, the best and brightest are found in the gunsmithing forum more often than the others. We want intelligent responses and the temptation to post here is great. But by the same token since this is where you DON'T have the people that spend so much time on the political section, why ruin it?

Hey Jeff, how about moving this over to Misc. now?

Red

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
FYJ,

Since you are new here. Should you feel a thread is not topical, please PM me with the link and I'll review.


Other than this, I believe the site owner, Saeed, has summed this up very well.

Have a nice day.


jeffe

jeffe,

This is a great web site and provides an incredible source of discussion and information of interest to firearms enthusiasts. My hat is off to Saeed and to all of you who volunteer your time to make it available to all of us.

I could care less what others on here want to post. I, like everyone else on here, always have the option of not reading their posts, or not participating in a thread at all if it doesn’t interest me or if its on a topic that I am not familiar with. Thank you for the offer, but I have no interest in PMing you to address posts made by other people or to “rat†people out for saying something that I may not like. It appears that you already have quite a little army providing that function.

Being a moderator is akin to being the chairperson of a meeting, and I have a bit of experience in that area having served on a board of directors for almost a decade. The person chairing a meeting DOES NOT participate in the discussion or debate on the floor, that is not their job and the meeting would soon become total chaos if they were to do so.

You seem to have some difficulty in deciding which hat you are wearing at any given moment on here. If someone disagrees with you or questions something you have said while you are wearing your “posters hat†you immediately switch back to your “moderator hat†and start PMing, deleting, and moving things that make you uncomfortable or that you have decided are “off topic.â€

I’m sorry, but that practice gives allot of people the impression that your moderator-hat is primarily used to help bail out your poster-hat when he gets in trouble.

off topic = writing a post about 'off topic' on a gunsmithing forum...ya get it

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Originally posted by fyj:

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:
FYJ,

Since you are new here....

jeffe

jeffe,

Being a moderator is akin to being the chairperson of a meeting,

That would be a poor assumption, as this is not how Saeed runs his site. Conclusions from this assumption are, unfortunately, flawed.

Should you like for that to change, please PM Saeed, and why don't you tell him just how this sight should be run, since you have all the answers?

ya'll have a nice day now
jeffe

Gentlemen,

I cannot see where the problem is as far as being on topic is concerned.

We have so many forums, each is dedicated to a specific subject. Anything not related to that subject is off topic and should not be posted there.


Anyone claiming he does not understand this has no business posting on an open website.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Gentlemen,

I cannot see where the problem is as far as being on topic is concerned.

We have so many forums, each is dedicated to a specific subject. Anything not related to that subject is off topic and should not be posted there.


Anyone claiming he does not understand this has no business posting on an open website.

Thanks for making that so clear, Saeed.