Posted by Scott on 7/22/2005, 4:48 pm
Message modified by board administrator 7/22/2005, 4:55 pm

A few words on the rules... "Feel free to discuss all aspects of raising, keeping, and breeding poultry. We ask only that you are respectful and courteous to each other." That's directly from the very small list of rules at the top of the page. The key here is "respectful and courteous". I just finished removing a number of posts that were neither, and there's no room for that. It's okay to disagree. It's fine to post a counter-opinion. It's fine to debate. To tell someone they are somehow "less than" because they don't agree is cruel. To be rude, condescending, and uppity is not what we're about here. Personalities do clash. Ideas clash. We can agree to disagree without being cruel. Please take a moment to re-read what you've written before posting. Think about how you'd feel if someone said the same to you. Try to turn things around when they are going downhill rather than making things worse. Be decent to each other. Each other is all we've got. God Bless you all, Scott P.S. I also removed some things that didn't fall under the scope of this letter, but were no longer pertinent because of items I removed. I also removed some things that just didn't fall under the theme of the board, or contribute to a topic.