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First of all I thank Debasree for opening a thread asking to restrict Newbies from opening random threads. But is anyone looking at the forum rules?
In the last few days I have closed several new threads opened for one-line queries and some redundand A-T topics. I am growing tired of this.
Now I see a birthday thread opened for someone who is a member's friend. Whose birthday is it? Is that person a member of this forum? Is anyone having the mere courtesy to look at the rules? Does it make sense to open a thread for some arbitrary person who is never seen on this forum? There are some ex-members whose birthday threads are being opened (for eg Debayon). The member him/herself has no time to come and respond to the thread, then why open it? Then there are some members who pop in just on their birthday and send me angry PMs because I didn't open a thread. Come on...if they are not active here, how will I know they will visit? The reply is that they are 'silent' and come every week to download Daya caps. How am I supposed to know that?
Then there are some members who keep scrapping and PMing and asking (sorry demanding is a better word) why I don't reply. Come on, please respect everyone's preferences. It's not that I hate you or that I only reply to my friends. It's just that I don't check scraps that often. Also I don't come here to chat with random people and make friends. If you become active here and I find that many of our ideas match we may become friends in future.
There is one person who creates a new id every weekend and posts some video links, which is clearly against rules. I have to raise the WL and delete the thread EVERY saturday morning. There's no point, the person is back with a new id next week.
I wonder if the rules thread is to be placed under Forum Imp topics at all. No one cares to look at them. Maybe it's better to keep it as a running thread which is active, so that some people pay some attention when it comes to page 1.
Please pay attention to the rules!!! I expect all 'silent' members and newbies to read the rules and hit 'like' to this post. If anyone breaks the rules and I close their thread without any information, please don't complain or send angry PMs/scraps.
Cricket
