HELLO!!!!
It was little old me that started this thread and it was a ''JOKE'' 
It was actually meant for 'The Boy' & was tongue-in-cheek aimed at his remark about pickeys!! 
Personally i think it to be VERY funny & listening to what a lot of people in general say (outside of OOF) it rings true!! :-?
May i be frank? (well its Andy but not according to the ex!) ....... The World is apparently ending in 2012 so how about us leaving with a smile on our faces - it takes far less muscles to laugh than to frawn ....... fact!! 
Personally, I would like to go back to the old style minimal moderation, relying on members to be sensible.
BUT, as per the other discussion, we get a small minority of members who have to push the limits too far (then subsequently keep baiting the Admin Team). Then those same members start moaning because the Admin Team moderates their posts, then a whole heap of bad feeling starts, and then we end up where we are right now. And then people get over-sensitive. Then, in order to restore some kind of harmony, the Admin Team have to do a difficult clamp-down, then members think they are being censored, and start to rebel, fractures the community.
Again, personally, by the time I finish work for a day, I have had enough of fractured "divide and conquer" workgroups, so I sure as hell don't enjoy giving up large proportions my own personal time and money here, just to endure the same old shit.
Now, wrt to jokes, I like a joke as much as the next man. BUT, with this heightened sense of dysfunction on here, coupled with the fact that somebody is always the brunt of a joke, I would be inclined to try to think who you could upset before posting. In addition to that, in nearly 4 years of OOF, the number of original jokes I have read on OOF probably don't reach double figures. All the other thousands are tired, old jokes that may have been amusing the first time around, but we've all heard them so many times before, they have become tedious.
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