Well PP26

I stop talking to people who are just rude for the sake of being rude, the only time I will ever speak to such people is if it is a requirement of my job. However, as I have recently retired I no longer talk to people I don't want to.


UK Bob

I know when i am not wanted on a forum. I came here to make a deference, If what i did was wrong before should have been told in a PM, not out in the open for people to read, its just like making a fool of me. that is the reason why i am not coming back to a forum that only want me to know about software. People did enjoy my news stories.

crymomma,

It seems to me that a mod sent you a PM after you first began posting here.

Everyone else replying to you has tried to encourage you to share your thoughts. I don't see how that makes a fool of you.

"that is the reason why i am not coming back to a forum that only want me to know about software". Among the many responses to your posts, I saw software mentioned only once.

Crymomma

I have to agree with Blackhorse, no one expects you to be an expert on software, hardware or anything else. Whereas most of us share our computer related experiences we also share our life experiences as well, plus we also talk about world-wide news items.

Now I will say this, when others, such as myself, bring up a news story we also make a comment on it. When you bring up a news story you just do a "copy & paste" of a news article without any comment. And, I believe, this is what the mods are objecting to, not your news articles but your lack of comments on them.

That said, I still believe you are more than welcome to still contribute to the forum but it is just that you have to put a little more thought into what you are doing and why, rather than just copying and pasting news articles into the forum.

I hope you will think about my comments above and come back to the forum reinvigorated.


UK Bob

Both of you are right, yet i also said that i like to comment on a copy & paste news story after a person made the first comment on it. this is how a discussion will get started. I remember a time when using my browser that i made my own story without links on another forum because i didnt know how, members there will say to me links, links..i think to myself links this is my own news story from what i read. That forum never taught me the right way to make a thread. Right now on another forum i can make a thread and the member will often leave a comment and we will have a discussion about it.

Just for the record I did PM you long before it came out in public. I did hint at you to put a little more thought into your threads here.

You didn't even reply to the PM, where by if having replied, this could have easily been dealt with through PM. Instead you waited a few days and continued down the exact same path.

And no, simply copy/pasted news stories with a link are not welcomed here without any input from the original poster.

The reason for this is that if someone keeps doing it, then someone else might join in, and then someone else and so on and so on, until the lounge here is nothing but a copy/paste news site. If that was what we wanted for this forum then staff here could easily spend 10 minutes a day copy/pasting various random news stories from all around the net.

Is that your intention? A random news site that just happens to also have a file sharing forum?

If you want to portrait me as the bad guy here then fine with me. If you don't feel welcome, then fine, leave. If you choose to keep posting then please keep in mind that your posting methods need to change to including some input of your own in EVERY thread you make. If you are able to do this then you are quite welcomed to continue posting in this forum.

I could easily have sent this through PM, but the last time I got no indication that you even read it, so why bother. Might as well make it public for all the other would be copy/pasters.

Sincerely

Sleepless