Oh!! Steve!! Now look what you lot have done!!
Tricky one, this. Kind of echoes the issues a few weeks back when the "kids" were being flamed.
The other forum I moderate on would immediately stop any off topic chit chat. The rules are that it is a motoring forum and not a playground for everybody. Having said that, in the last couple of weeks it has lost a couple of established members, one due to "excessive mdoerating" and the other due to him getting fed up with the sniping and backbiting. We can't win there...
However those aren't the rules here, and shouldn't be, either. As Termie says, it's off season. If we restricted chat to just Le Mans, what a dull time it would be. And, for me, this thread was really quite entertaining and to some degree educational, despite being way OT.
I really really hope Steve will be back, as he goes back a long long time, to the previous format forum IIRC, and as well as being welcoming to new members we must be careful not to alienate existing ones. I'm not really sure why Steve took offence, there was nothing particularly exclusive or offensive about any cliqueyness in this thread, for us regulars it was just a regular hijack...
Still, please take note of what happened here and let's collectively take care that CA doesn't end up with a reputation for cliqueyness.
