censorship

[davem]

Originally Posted by Durelin

Whether or not a person is witty has nothing to do with it. Most of us (I believe) just consider flame wars, whether they consist of decent grammar and spelling or not, to be childish and a waste of time, and, perhaps more importantly, a waste of bandwidth.

No, you misunderstand. I'm not talking about 'flamewars' here - no broadswords are necessary. If you check out Bb's post (no 47) in the 'Pre-baptism' thread you'll see how effective the stilletto can be.....

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by davem

No, you misunderstand. I'm not talking about 'flamewars' here - no broadswords are necessary. If you check out Bb's post (no 47) in the 'Pre-baptism' thread you'll see how effective the stilletto can be.....

Moi? Goes off to see how I use this fashion accessory, careful to walk with a due care on these dangerous heels, as I am much more used to my Birkenstocks.

Originally Posted by Sauce

The purpose of the forum rules, to my mind, is primarily to maintain the essential (family friendly) nature of this site: a place for civilised, respectful, friendly and good-humoured discussion and debate, in keeping with the tone of Tolkien's works. That, in my view, is one of this site's greatest strengths. It marks it out from many other sites that I have visited and makes it the sort of place that I enjoy returning to time and time again.

I like this point, that the tone here endeavours to emulate Tolkien's own civility. I have always enjoyed his comment about his detractors. so witty.

[davem]

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

I like this point, that the tone here endeavours to emulate Tolkien's own civility. I have always enjoyed his comment about his detractors. so witty.

Oh, I'm pretty sure the great man was capable of the withering put down, & if we recall Dyson's famous impromptu comment during one Inklings gathering re 'the ubiquity of *****Elves' we can be sure that their conversations would not always have been the usual 'Vicar's tea party' stuff. And personally, I don't feel that snappy comebacks & the demolishing of poor arguments is always bad - or even uninteresting come to that. However that's just me, & I accept that the Downs has its own policy re such things. If I want a verbal knife fight I take it outside.....

[alatar]

I think that the word we are looking for, Neithan Tol Turambar, is not censorship but entitlement. What gives you, me, the forked army - anyone - the right to post here? Maybe it's my understanding of freedom that is different. You can say and do whatever pleases you, just as the Barrow Wight can boot you off at any moment at his pleasure.

You are free to create your own site, ruled as you please, and can ban anyone bearing boring behaviour.

And by the by, welcome to the Downs!

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I have just came back from a political meeting and even though we are all friends debates can become very heated and therefor we all sit down and agree upon a set of rules for the debate beforehand.

This does not in anyway lessen the pation of the debate or the quality of the arguments, what it does do is to insure that "people goes for the ball instead of the man" to use a football term. If one cannot win arguments without using personal attacs and ect. then it is a sign of lack of skill.

and yes Lal, I do follow the reds!

although I suspect I will visit Goodison the next time I am in town.

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I have just came back from a political meeting and even though we are all friends debates can become very heated and therefor we all sit down and agree upon a set of rules for the debate beforehand.

This does not in anyway lessen the pation of the debate or the quality of the arguments, what it does do is to insure that "people goes for the ball instead of the man" to use a football term. If one cannot win arguments without using personal attacs and ect. then it is a sign of lack of skill.

and yes Lal, I do follow the reds!

although I suspect I will visit Goodison the next time I am in town.

Ha ha! You veahy fuhey mahn!
And they still went broke!
I love Russians, hate Bolshevists!

[the guy who be short]

How heated could anybody get about Tolkien anyway?

[davem]

Originally Posted by the guy who be short

How heated could anybody get about Tolkien anyway?

I don't get heated about Tolkien. I get heated when people won't accept what I tell them & argue with me when they know I'm right.

[Boromir88]

I get heated when people won't accept what I tell them & argue with me when they know I'm right.

But davem, I do that to you all the time