Hey Scud

[K K Rossokolski]

I've been on the road out of touch for a couple of weeks, so belated best wishes for 2010 to all here.

Home now, I have read the thread and the new rules, and frankly...if I dare use this term.....I am appalled. I've been here for a long time, and this forum used to be a pretty entertaining and informative place to be. Rough and tumble, sure, but it was, after all, the discussion board of a wargaming club for grown-ups, not the PC-driven debating society of an exclusive finishing school for young ladies.

What started this?...the very long thread on game scale springs to my mind. Two totally opposing camps got nasty and childish. Command attention was ineffective. Even when it was blindingly obvious no solution was possible, people found new ways to be obnoxious. I was as guilty as any, and for that I now formally apologise to the club. One of those occasions, common in human history, where a group lapses into insanity. I believe we had collectively learned from this, and most of us who participated felt some shame. I did. Seemed from where I sit, just about everybody was trying hard to improve things

But rule #20 ain't enough. Need to spell it out in fine detail, children.. Well, good luck in applying rules based on subjective terms such as "sarcasm" "aggressive" and "argumentative". And I suppose I am too fond of democracy to accept the idea of an extra penalty for appealing a decision. As well, I guess I'm too used to "emergency" meaning flood, fire, toxic leak, fuel gauges on "E"..... silly stuff like that....... so it's good to know that saying "Boo" on a wargaming club message board is a REAL emergency.

The new rules will emasculate the MB. And they are presented and explained, I believe, in a manner which is a near perfect example of the supposed problem....insulting, demeaning, aggressive, threatening and confrontational etc.. Some people even consider the word "ba*ta*d" to be foul language. Do as I say, not as I do.... never a leadership style that, in my experience, worked very well

I don't plan to resign, because I have made a commitment to produce a suite of scenarios, both exotic and mainstream. Therefore I will post only in that context, and may need to ask a question on computers. These single posts will be brief and factual. Apart from those two specific subjects, I withdraw from the MB for all other matters for the foreseeable future. Anyone wants to talk to [email protected]

Good luck