Your spelling sucks, your grammar is horrible, and you're now on my Ignore list. Have a nice day. :D

Oh thank god...prat.

Seen that too.

I one occasion it tore a already small community apart, resulting in three factions.

Maybe the people calling for a more severe moderation don't spend too much time on Internet boards.

One mans “crap” is another mans “meaningful discussion” …

I think this is for Oleg to decide.

I'm talking about the off-topic discussions, such as the current one about Britain's treatment of Poland. Nothing wrong with talking about that, of course, but it has no relevance to the topic at hand.

He has to wade through all of that as well. Show the man some respect by staying on topic.

well seems this thread has turned into a lot of chaff..i'm done with it.

I retract that statement in full. I just went back and had another look and my post didn't calm things down at all.
That'll teach me.:(

I'm one of the guilty parties of that discussion. Unfortunately my standards drop to that of the thread, I'd rather mods just removed all our off topic chat (in update threads), and we'd all get the message. Unfortunately I give in to the 'if you can't beat them, join them' attitude. If there's a conversation I'd like to join in on, it's tough to say 'hey everyone, come with me to chat about this elesewhere' (I did try it with one topic), and easy just to join in.

That's exactly what i would favor as well. Bans should be reserved for offences like repeat personal attacks and so on, it's too harsh for off topic remarks.

Best thing to do would be to cut the off topic posts from the update thread and move them to a separate one, opened by a moderator. Since moderators can't waste their time categorizing each off-topic discussion in its own thread but would lump everything in the same basket, we would be left with a thread that's hard to follow for our side-tracked musings. This would gradually force us to open up separate threads of our own whenever we wanted to go on a tangent.

Sad but true, causing a minor inconvenience to upset the modus operandi is the most effective means to make people drift to a different one ;)

LOL.. I might join in.