Limit-pushing

[Jason Bolt]

I am not a hater. I just don't agree with storm track letting people talk about the female body parts in a disrespectfull way. Some people need to show some respect to the female members here. I guess the Christian base here will start to diminish now that that thread will stay up and others like it may start appearing.

I am sick of hearing how "if xyz is allowed to continue I will leave" or the thinly veiled version "such and such will start to diminish". It's a free country. If you don't like it here, go ahead and diminish. It's crap to basically throw it in the mod's face "if you don't fix this how I like it I will leave. As a church going Christian I will be the first to tell you this is a WEATHER forum, not a religious forum that happens to talk about weather. If it worries you so bad, stay on the mountaintop. Get on the KLOVE forums and start a weather group.

Let's call a spade a spade: there are people continually threatening their departure if things aren't moderated or steered the way they want them. It is a thinly veiled attempt at censorship and it makes me sick.

 

[Shane Adams]

I am not a hater. I just don't agree with storm track letting people talk about the female body parts in a disrespectfull way. Some people need to show some respect to the female members here. I guess the Christian base here will start to diminish now that that thread will stay up and others like it may start appearing.

Jesus Christ Carman.

Not all women want to be respected into a nun. Not every woman is offended by a humerous sexual reference. And sometimes, though they might not all admit it, a woman wants to be pinned down and ravaged. Your whole "700 Club" attitude is just screaming "40-year-old-virgin" and it's a played-out stance.

Just once in a while, it'd be nice if you easily-offended, never-touch-a-woman-down-there-cause-Jesus-said-it-was-bad types would stop to think that maybe, just maybe, you're the minority....before spouting off your self-righteous spew.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Just to let you know that all of these issues are being discussed right now in the private admin forum and we will probably be coming down with some minor policy changes shortly.

Also as a reminder to all, if you choose to participate in heated threads like these, remember to keep the snarks and personal attacks out of the posts. There has yet to be a flame war on Stormtrack where people were not suspended and usually that's due to the inevitable name calling and ridicule that starts cropping up.

Tim

 

[Paul Hadfield]

I am not a hater. I just don't agree with storm track letting people talk about the female body parts in a disrespectfull way. Some people need to show some respect to the female members here. I guess the Christian base here will start to diminish now that that thread will stay up and others like it may start appearing.

As a perp who contributed a bit of harmless humor to the "problem thread", apologies to anyone who was offended. Next time I'll try to come up with a male specific pun to balance the error of my ways (phallus jokes are always funnier anyways). Ironically, I'm watching Leno at the time of this post (along with millions of other good God fearing American Christians) and thinking how nothing I or anyone else on this forum contributes is any worse than what is readily available through the mainstream.

 

[Chris Allington]

Anyone else notice the busiest threads on this forum the past week or so have been discussions about how this place should be run and who we should cater to? And after it's been established almost six years now. That's a problem.

Time to either change the name, or start kicking people off. The problem with ST is there's too many damn people, and most of those have not, do not, and will not ever chase.

What's the point of "educating" an enthusiast, a person who has no plans to ever chase? That to me is effort without any applicable payoff. I've no interest in feeling obligated to teach chasing techniques to people who will do nothing but sit in front of a computer on a stormy day. That doesn't make me an asshole, it makes me a chaser among enthusiasts. Do I think that makes me better? No, it just makes me a chaser among enthusiasts. Sorry, but I have no interest in pow-wowing with muggles. Nothing I say will ever be used, so what's the point?

As far as the "I'm offended" crowd, get over it. Kids get toy stores, free entrance into everything, every other week out of school, Christmas, and 30% of all television. Leave the rugrats home for pro sporting events, late night resturants/bars, and ONLINE FORUMS. This ain't romper room.

Again - I say we start kicking members, even if it means I'm one of 'em. This place deteriorates with each new member who isn't a serious chaser. If this makes you mad at me, oh well....you didn't buy a DVD anyway so I could care less.

I used to not care either way, but I really agree with this stance now. It seems like we have more and more people that have less and less information to contribute now.

 

[Tyler Burg]

Time to either change the name, or start kicking people off. The problem with ST is there's too many damn people, and most of those have not, do not, and will not ever chase.

BINGO BINGO BINGO!!! this sums up ST perfectly. Well said Shane.

 

[Chris Nuttall]

Bingo. No fights and flames = thread stays open.

There has been some questions regarding inaction by the mods with the recent spats we've had. I'd like to clarify something. Just because the thread hasn't been closed or you don't see/hear infractions being issued, does not mean that we aren't doing something. Sometimes we are slow to act because we are having our own discussion on how to handle things. Since we are all not around the board 24/7 and are typically on here at different times, it took some time for all of us to get to the board and look things over.

 

[Bob Hartig]

You know, I just revisited another thread in the equipment section dealing with GRlevelXstuff.com getting their entire database wiped out. THE preeminent Gibson Ridge support site, ruined. Some very devoted people's labor of love, shot down the toilet. Reading about it snaps into focus for me the reason why I'm on Stormtrack in the first place, and it's not to find more reasons to bicker. There are bigger fish to fry.

I tend to agree that this forum needs to become more selective about its membership, but the topic just opens up more material for more flame wars, and I am beyond fed up with all of that garbage. This is a private forum, Tim sets the rules, and the moderators enforce them. Everyone else here, me included, needs to deal with that and get on with the main reason this forum exists in the first place, which is storm chasing. Not boobs and buttocks, and not moralizing about them. Not ripping each other's freaking lips off. Storms.

Remember?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhh!!!!!!! <Banging head agains wall.>

Beer. Give me beer. Nothing short of a barleywine will do.

 

[John Farley]

Why do threads like this always get more posts that FCST, DISC, or other weather discussion threads?

 

[Danny Neal]

Why do threads like this always get more posts that FCST, DISC, or other weather discussion threads?

Because that's when the people that you never knew were members come out of the cracks and stir the pot

Honestly it is ridiculous. Okay may there IS something wrong with suggestive humor on a storm chasing site. HOWEVER, I am TIRED of trying to talk about a set up that may or may not show up on the GFS/NAM/WHATEVER MODEL only to have the same jags come in the thread to tell me it can't be trusted that I am a moron for bringing it up and putting faith in the run that far out. I have shy-ed away from forecast discussion for this reason. I have been chasing and forecasting for quite a while now, you think I don't know not to put faith in a model run 8 days out? The point is to DISCUSS what that particular model run may show and to forecast for that run. Then again half the people running a-muck in those threads don't belong here anyway.... (whole different tangent that Shane was suggesting) ARRRRGHHH BEEEERRRR!!!

/rant

 

[Steve Miller]

Why do threads like this always get more posts that FCST, DISC, or other weather discussion threads?

There simply aren't enough people here who are confident/competent enough to post in the real threads that make this forum useful. Everyone has apparently honed their skills in the opinion-giving areas though.

 

[MatthewCarman]

I want to apologize to everyone. I have not been a very good christian putting down others for what they post. I will work on not doing that again. I think it is time to take a break from this site. We all need to cool off.

 

[Danny Neal]

I want to apologize to everyone. I have not been a very good christian putting down others for what they post. I will work on not doing that again. I think it is time to take a break from this site. We all need to cool off.

?

There is a big difference in what you do.

"I don't like ........ " is a hell of a lot better than always saying "You shouldn't say....."

No one has a problem with YOU Matthew, I think the problem is that YOU think you can moderate everyone whether you do it intentionally or by accident. No one likes being told what to do.... you see all the animosity the mods get ...... when you police everyone, people see "not a moderator" and think who the hell is this guy?

Food for thought.

 

[Chris Allington]

One thing that I dont understand is moderation is here to enforce the same rules we are supposed to abide by, yet they engage in the same name calling in the chat room:

 

[Bob Hartig]

These last two posts were worth reading, at least from my POV. Excellent food for thought, Danny. And Matt, well done. Humility isn't an easy virtue to practice. Thanks to both of you.

EDIT: Whoops, looks like Chris got in there before I hit send.