flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
Ron Levy said:Also, as mentioned by Jesse above, this thread has gotten so huge that it is no longer useful to communicate your feelings to the MC. Therefore, I'm closing it. If folks are still concerned about the issue, please start a new thread here in Site Feedback and Support so we don't have to go back through over three hundred posts to figure out what you want, and how many of you want it.
Well, I'm probably the only person stubborn enough to keep asking for it. I guess I should have thanked my mom for that yesterday, too.
Ron Levy said:flyingcheesehead said:Scott, for the 56,801,327th time - I like to talk to my friends. I would like to occasionally do so without talking to the whole world.
That's what PM's are for. Don't post anything here or on any other web discussion site (including Purple -- anyone can register) that you don't want read by anyone you didn't choose to have read it.
Okay, apparently a clarification is in order.
By "friends" I mean those of you that inhabit this board.
The PM system is restricted to 5 or 10 recipients at a time and is ill-equipped to handle discussions of the type I would like to have with people here, but not the rest of the world.
Examples:
* Flights in airplanes I don't own - That'd be all of them - where I may want an opinion on something that might be harmful, for example, and I want to learn without ticking off the owner of the aircraft
* Discussions about TSA and DHS - I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually troll the internet and put dissenters on the no-fly list, since they do not need to justify anything they do to that list.
* Anything else that we want to share among the community here, but we don't want to end up on Google for any old schmuck to not only read, but to find really easily.
The proposal, to clarify: Add one more forum to the list. Call it the "Twilight Zone" or whatever you wish. Make it invisible to guests and new members with less than 5 posts. All other rules apply as they would in any other non-SZ forum. I say 5 posts mostly just to simplify things from a technical aspect, as there is already a group defined for people who have 5 posts (that enables the ability to attach files) and thus would be simpler to set up. A possible alternative would be a Spin Zone style setup, where the forum is invisible until someone goes and adds a group or whatever. (I wonder if Scott Migaldi is still reading this message...)
I fully realize that this will not STOP anyone who really wants to see these messages from finding said forum and said messages, and I'm perfectly OK with that - If it's *THAT* big of a secret, then it shouldn't be posted. That's not the kind of material I'm talking about. I'm talking about things that I'd rather not see on Google, but I have no problem with them being semi-hidden/semi-public as I've detailed above.
Thank you.