Picking up on a comment by Linda1953 about MyMerhaba in another thread (but by no means a direct reply to that, this is a general comment).
People moan about administrators and moderators - asking people not to type in capitals, not to have 1 to 1 conversations, to use the search facility, locking topics, deleting phone numbers etc., but you have to have rules if the forum is to survive and grow.
I would ask all members to have faith in a superb (and gentle) moderator team here. The team are all just like the rest of the members, Calis and Fethiye lovers - they don't get paid for their time, they do it because they love the subject of the site. They are better off than me though - I have to pay for the bloody thing
I would like you to imagine the alternative
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I will return all moderators to normal member status, allow typing in capitals, private conversations, guarantee that no matter how off topic, rude or personal a topic becomes it won't be locked, moved or deleted, remove the registration process to allow anyone to post even if they gave a false email address, (generally to attack someone or to post endless adverts for Nokia phones or p0rn sites etc.) and let the forum continue from there.
I am sure that in your mind right now you are thinking of what the forum would have become in just a week's time - and it wouldn't be pleasant.
Please don't see the rules as some sort of dictatorship, the fact that we have them is a massive explanation of just why we grew to this size and didn't self destruct in 2004.
Thanks.
