An observation of the site

The moderators do an excellent job of keeping this forum from being a free for all.

If by "nanny like" you mean blocking racist, sexist and otherwise abusive posts, I would hate to to see the type of material you would want on this site.

The moderators have a duty to protect people from such material and should be supported in that function.

Regarding spelling mistakes if a moderator corrected a spelling mistake of mine, I would thank them. For most of us on this forum English is our first language, so we should be proud of our language and education and present the best image possible to the rest of the world.

Sadly, some of the non typographical errors show worrying weakness in the English language education systems. For example the numbur of times I have seen there/their and to/too wrongly used has surprised me.

In conclusion, give the moderators credit for the work they do, that we regular forums members do not see, keeping this site safe for all users 

Dave what other conclusion could I come to, you used the vague term "nanny-like". If you had been clearer with your first post, instead of hiding it in innuendo, there would have been no confusion 

Where in the past I requested Moderators to act on posts. It has been because of the reasons above, and the moderators have acted promptly.

And I honestly believe the only reason that moderators have to act is for those reasons

Now Dave can you give an example of this excess moderating, instead of turning your back on what you just started.

The strength of this forum is the control that kept it safe for all people to participate.

Dave this is not personal against you, but a lot of "persons" have broke their back making this forum a success

PS to Rhys "people's spelling"  Now that was a tasty nit.

thepits However, I will admit I have been accused of a being a pedant as far as grammar and spelling is concerned, and in the past I have corrected the most glaring errors. I have realised that this is totally pointless exercise and have ceased the thankless task!   [/QUOTE wrote: You could have driven yourself into hospital trying to do that. We all do "typos". But the amount of bad grammer and spelling is frightening.

You could have driven yourself into hospital trying to do that. We all do "typos". But the amount of bad grammer and spelling is frightening.

gjoconnor92 wrote: Sadly, some of the non typographical errors show worrying weakness in the English language education systems. For example the numbur of times I have seen there/their and to/too wrongly used has surprised me.

you were saying...

Rossi wrote: gjoconnor92 wrote: Sadly, some of the non typographical errors show worrying weakness in the English language education systems. For example the numbur of times I have seen there/their and to/too wrongly used has surprised me. you were saying...

I was going to try and say it was a deliberate error to see who would spot it. But in present company I thought better not

The numbers 53 are being used before "ar" to get past filter

and oo and 00 instead of uc are another example

But unfortunately as fast you can update the filters the desparately illiterate will come up with something new.

I think there should be a dictionary of regularly used abrev. somewhere.  Not everyone, particularly us older folk, know what�s being said.

As for swearing I think, unfortunately, this has become a part of standard English. Sometimes being able to write something down on a forum like this vents the spleen sufficiently enough to save some rotten mechanic from being murdered thereby keeping a number of contributing members out of jail!!!

GGTTH!

PS I think the mods are a bunch of ............. great guys

Shorty

If you remember correctly I didn't shoot you down in flames, I agreed with you, and upset a good many people stamping on this form of writing.

I haven't had so much time to spend on here lately, but I will start to deal with this again, and the swear words, no matter how they are spelt, I'll start suspending again after the normal warnings have been issued.

Now...wait for the complaints.

or is that goes on ? lol lol lol lol, pleasure Shorty, as always