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[quote user="Datafever"] Would you agree that there does need to be some level of control if a community of net'ers is going to be created?  I can't imagine that anyone here would like it very much if someone came in and began posting a mess of threads that had nothing whatsoever to do with trains.  On the other hand, the forum has created a couple of long-running threads that do indeed have nothing to do with trains, by and large.  We recognize that having a place to share a bit of our daily lives with each other is a good thing - it helps build community.  But this particular community is built around trains.  Not model railroading, not rockets, not deep sea diving - trains.  If a few of the community members find that they share a common interest in deep sea diving, they should politely respect those of us who don't and find a different forum for those discussions.In reality, this forum has only one standard.  And that is whatever Bergie is going to allow.  What I want doesn't matter.  What someone else wants doesn't matter.  Only what Bergie wants really has any significant impact on the community-building power of this forum.  If Bergie does a good job of maintaining the forum, the community will thrive.  And Bergie must be doing something right because as near as I can tell, the volume of traffic on this forum has been increasing every year.  The community is growing.Let me pose a different question to you.  What if someone came into the forum and talked trains, but always managed to find an erotic slant in most of their posts?  How would you feel about that?  I suspect that the community would complain to Bergie (because this is a "family" forum) who would take appropriate action.Now let me go another step.  What if someone came into the forum and talked trains, but always managed to twist everything into a partisan political debate?  Should that be allowed?  I'm sure that there would be people who would enjoy the resulting political arguments (all around a train theme, to be sure).  But what would be the impact on the community at a whole?On the whole, I give Bergie two thumbs up for the job that he is doing. [/quote] I'll agree with you on the last sentence, but otherwise you ask a lot of questions that are really best addressed with your own words that i have highlighted in red. Very seldom i'll  try to impose my preferences upon what I think other members should and should not be allowed to post, because I am conscious of the fact that I am not an authority here. Many others could benefit greatly if they would make that realization for themselves. I could rant on and on about people trying to install themselves as "pseudo-Bergies" , but really everything that needs to be said has  been covered in the previous sentence. Too bad more people fail to make that realization  PERIOD
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