Membership Discussion of Possible Change to Rule #12

[Thomas H]

Thomas, I've edited this thread now to show it was opened by me with citing it was moved for a discussion of Rule 12 from another thread by Steve. I hope this resolves your concern.

Mael, XMTS Moderator

Thank you Sir ,

[mookien]

... I am kind of curious to know how much of the total bandwidth of the internet is taken up by such stuff. The main thing is I don't see any benefit in pressuring Steve to buy more bandwidth. The global market for all things kilt related is pretty small, compared to, well lots of other products. Shoes, mens neckties, sneakers. So "we" the kilt wearing community 'need' a certain amount of bandwidth to set a good example, but that bandwidth is paid for by a very few supporting vendors selling an already expensive product.
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You raise a good question, but in this instance is the cost of internet bandwidth really an issue?

For example, if a single forum called "Miscellaneous" or "Meander" or "Whatever" is created that is exempt from Rule 12, will hordes of folks with little or no interest in kilt-related subjects flood onto XMTS to discuss other subjects, especially under the constraint of the other Rules that would still apply to the new forum? I doubt it, but I don't know.

Perhaps Steve and his server admins can give us their more informed opinion.

[HenryT]

Please do not change the rules for Trolls or any one esle , this forum has been doing fine
and will remain doing fine if peolpe just follow the rules.
Dont change the rules for people who cant follow the all ready in place rules.
Thank you

I am also of this exact opinion.

[O'Callaghan]

I'm with Grizzly and Peter. "With the exception of the miscellaneous forum and the pub,......"

Think all the other forums I haunt have some sort of pub or lounge feature for unrelated posts. I think those venues help keep the main kilt forums more focused.

Seems like a perfectly reasonable plan

[McElmurry]

It ain't broke...don't fix it.

[Thomas H]

It ain't broke...don't fix it.

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[Steve Ashton]

On behalf of the staff I would like to thank everyone who participated in this discussion. Your comments and suggestions were invaluable to us in re-writing Rule #12 to remove the perceived conflict.

After the last post of discussion within this thread the staff began their deliberations to work out the final wording.

The Forum Rules now read:

Rule #12
- Off Topic Threads & Posts -
a) The topic of discussion on X Marks is the kilt. Threads or posts not related to the kilt are restricted to either the Events or Community Forums.
b) Posts to existing threads must keep to the topic set by the Original Poster (OP). Posts which take a thread off the original topic may be removed.

This thread is now closed.