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[ABSpareEditor]

After the events that occurred over the weekend, rather than emailing several individual members, this is a public statement.

In life, you will find that you get along with some people more so than others. Online, this is amplified, as the Internet allows you to meet and communicate with more people than you normally would. This can be a good thing, getting you outside your "echo chamber" and "filter bubble" and introducing you to new ideas and experiences. But it can be a bad thing if people, rather than opinions, end up being attacked.

Therefore, please make sure that personal, harmful attacks do not get posted in your questions and answers. Such thoughts can’t be helped, however writing down those thoughts and clicking “Answer Now” is not acceptable. There is a space between action (somebody posts something you don't like) and reaction (you post something back) - that space is your thinking time, when you can choose to be better. Write the post, by all means, but do not click the "Answer Now" button!

If you know that there are certain individuals on The AnswerBank that cause upset beyond the topic of discussion, then you need to take it upon yourself to ignore, avoid or handle them better. Goading is unacceptable, do not rise to it, report it to us and we will deal with it as best we can. We can't referee "Who is right", "Who is wrong", "Who is lying", etc etc. What we can referee is "Did you post a personal attack". Don't do it.

Please realise that The AnswerBank is a community that connects us all. As part of the community, it is your responsibility to make it a place where other people want to be. This applies all of the time, not just some of the time or most of the time. If you can’t do this then we must and will take action for the benefit of the community as a whole.

[Spicerack]

Didn't think the joke was that bad, Mozz.

[douglas9401]

Abusage will not be tolerated. :-p

[10ClarionSt]

I don't know what this Op refers to, as I have hardly posted in the last few days, but I've been a member of this site long enough to remember when things got so bad that Ed. deleted the CB category completely.

From my own point of view, I have found some replies totally unnecessary over the years.

[pastafreak]

@06:10...didnt have a drop until about 10pm...shows what you think is wrong

[Spicerack]

'To the shelter, men'

[naomi24]

suzysox, you've just joined and yet you know all about the usual subjects.

For goodness sake give it a rest - all of you. What with the on-going wonky moderation and no one listening, and then this sort of nonsense going on for years, admin needn't look far to see why people are deserting the place.

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[pastafreak]

...and to continue it out in the open shows a lack of common sense.

[FatticusInch]

Spicerack
//'To the shelter, men'//

Lol!

[tiggerblue10]

The male of the species on here is often worse.

[naomi24]

10:03, 'suspects', not subjects - but subjects will do I suppose.

[Redhelen72]

Ed, I think the point has been proven and perhaps this should now be closed.

[Peter Pedant]

For goodness sake give it a rest - all of you.
nope - re-express in the first person plural ( inclusive-we in Cree)

For goodness sake let's give it a rest - all of us.

( er Naomi, wisely perhaps beyond her years, inclduing herself in the scrum )

[Peter Pedant]

Abusage will not be tolerated. :-p
er
Abusage will be subject to abolishment. :-p
shurely ( thx to wm deedes)

[MissTerious]

Seeing that I don't drink...........

As someone very much involved can I suggest that the comments stop now. It's over and done with. And it's over and done with. It was not a joking matter!

[gness]

Oh I don't know, Helen. It's proving to be an informative thread. :-)