Kidding?
You've got to be kidding. It's practically a joke on other gun boards.
Take a look at the number of threads that are locked.
End of discussion on my end. Do research and get back to me. I have personal experience with a half-dozen or more boards. This board seems to be, BY FAR, the one with the tightest leash on the posters. BIG TIME.
But then, I wouldn't expect many who are long timers here to have such awareness. Call it a lack of perspective on your parts.
That some deny it does not make it less so. As an outsider I can assure you, it not only exists, but is the object of.....'observation and comment'...by others on other boards.
AGAIN, it is your board...I am not trying to inflict my values, just making a point with regards to MY values, and those things that are significant points with regards to providing financial support to an on-line board of any kind.
No, I assure you, I am not kidding.
I have recently lived through years of teen-aged children and their friends. They found some of my constraints unreasonable. They felt that some of my rules were a joke. They made deprecating remarks to their friends. They had their own ideas about propriety.
I am no stranger to being told I'm "out of touch."
The number of locked threads is an indicator of the effort required to enforce the THR standards. People like to argue on
teh intarwebz and occasionally forget where they are.
The fact that our standards are
"a joke on other gun boards" is of little consequence. Other boards have their standards -- or lack of them -- and this does not translate to any obligation for THR to adopt their templates. We don't engage in criticism of other boards here. If other boards feel that the denigration of other segments of the community is somehow appropriate, then so be it.
Research? As in, to go in search of external opinion, so that we may modify our conduct to conform with what seems popular? It may have escaped you, but the very
name of this board is born of hard experience -- call it first-hand research -- over years.
This board is not a popularity contest. It is a place established by its owner to facilitate civil discussion of guns and related interests. Not surprisingly, the moderating staff will be found to be people who share that vision.
If it seems there is a "tight leash," it could just be that there's a sprinkling of members who need more reminding than others. Don't forget, there are literally
thousands of people who attend here because they
prefer the way things are run here. Nobody forces them to stay. Of them, several hundred are members of other boards -- guns, survival, blades, horses, motorcycles, and so on -- and have plenty of "perspective" in their selection of on-line content. The ones who are here, are here by choice.
It is interesting that you hold their choice in such contempt.
Don't worry about our values. The principles on which The High Road was founded are nurtured by both the staff and members.
You may decide, in time, that you like it here. Or maybe not. That's certainly for none of us to say.
But, should you decide you
DON'T like it here, and yet insist on staying, then I would question your judgement and/or motives.
If you decide to be disruptive, one of the staff will help you with that decision.
Do as you will.
