My thoughts:

Think before you fire back a response.
Will what you say make sense or just offend?
Do you mean to offend or counterattack?
Try and be exact with your response, sometimes I ramble and jumble-which is also wrong!
Even if you disagree and really want to "Slimslap" the poster, think about the action and reaction!

I am trying not to offend and be abrassive. Problem is that some folks look for those kind of responses when they post.....yes, you know who you are!

Charlie

Oh, I do not mean to gather round the campfire and sing spirituals and folk songs together......LMAO! Kumba ya my Lord Kumba ya!

Spirited discussions are good, but some things, like the incident last week that caused myash07 to temporarily leave the boards was abbrassive, stupid and wrong!

Charlie

nice post, trish.

Trish awesome post, but wrong part of the board, this needed to be put on Misc where most of what you pointed out goes on. Might be good to post it there too. hugsss

Liz
Sterling Robert EDD 7.4.05

Good idea ...

I just did the 'copy and paste' job over on the 'Miscellaneous' board ...

Very well said Trish and high time too. I'm sure this needs to be on the Misc. board but I for one am glad to see it here. I don't peruse the other board for the reasons stated here but I have seen plenty of heated 'disussions' on all manner of topics on this board. This is perhaps my 6th or 7th post but I have been here three years. Does that make me a FNG? Does it matter? I'm here to learn about cigars and 90% of what I have learned about 'gars, storage, humidification etc. has been learned on this forum. Thanks to all of you who are so willing to provide that info and take the time to write and post such.

Gary
GB of Metaline

Some things that have been going on here cant be fixed by us. Maybe the host should look at themselves to police things that are said.

I can tell someone to not post those comments but who am i but another poster to them. We dont have a post count next to our names so people just have no respect for our experience. Does that sound right? I think the host should start cracking down on some of these people. Let them buy cigars but ban them from the boards for as long as you see fit. Trust me...they will come back. But until something happens...some of us have found other places that we can weed out this type of behavior.

I guess what im trying to say is.....This is your forum...dont ask the inmates to keep the peace.

WOW!!! That might raise a few eyebrows. Oh well...someone needs to say it.

Hear hear! Complaining about a newbie posting something old or tired is like doing the same thing twice! If you are complaining about an old topic, or some one making a post about overbidding, you are ADDING to what you dislike!

mydsooner --- you would be surprised at how many people have had their posting privileges taken away since the start of these forums ...

... some permmanently, some temporarily ...

Some of those who have had the temporary 'banishment', have returned ... some have not.

Those that didn't return ... most likely still bid ... we but we are probably better of that they refrain from posting.

jimbarr ... and hopefully enlightening these folks (and those new to the forums) from further 'dead horse' issues. Unfortunately ... most of the five years of really informative threads and posts are gone, because of the new format ... so searches are pretty much futile.

I have come to the conclusion, that the CigarBid forums have become a great place for the beginner and novice cigar smoker ... as there will always be new people who have just discovered cigars for the first time coming on board ... because these auctions are a great and 'hopefully' cheap way for them to try out different cigars.

But, after awhile, and I've talked to many 'oldtimers' who have left, this becomes just to repiticious for them to deal with anymore, and they are not getting anything out of sifting though countless threads looking for something worthwhile to them. They have moved on to more 'established' cigar forums ... where most of these 'novice' issues don't abound ... and the threads and comments are a bit more 'evolved'.

the limited search is definitely an issue.

the name calling has been around as long as i have been posting. it goes in cycles. we are FNGs and FOGs the term is not a problem.

You need moderators.

I'm with the Bassdude on this... moderators would clean up the trash and let us get back to the things we enjoy to chat about, like cigars...

imho.

PT 🙂

Agreed!

I've said this many times before ... all forums need to
be moderated at some level ...

... but the staff at CB doesn't seem to want to offend any of their customers (bad for business) unless it really gets out of hand ... so they pretty much try to stay out of it as much as possible, and leave us to our own devices.

To me ... this just doesn't make much sense ... and gives the impression that the CB staff doesn't care all that much what goes on here.

Trish has come on board and given us her rare obligatory 'spanking' ... several times over the years ... but I personally don't think that holds much credibility with many of our posters.

I just post here part time. 🙂

My feelings on this issue are mixed. On the one hand, I think we're all adults and can handle a little 'adult conversation', whether it be profanity, sexually explicit or just plain mean spirited.

On the other hand, I think some folks just don't have thick enough skin, or 'adult mentality' to handle an unmoderated board.

In the end, it's all up to the c-bid staff to run it as they will, but if any of you good folks out there are having trouble sleeping, or find yourselves stressed because of something you read on an internet forum, then you're taking things here much too seriously.

That's my 2 cents as one of the good guys, or one of the bad guys, depending on your perspective.

Smoke on...

good thread.

lotta good points here. the point was brought up that there are other places to go, with less crap to contend with is a great one. i find myself hangin other places more & more, and have found other places to buy, only because of this.

not sayin i won't bid here, but the less i visit this board, the less i find myself bidding. it kinda goes hand in hand with me.

hope this thread draws the right attention.

what black just said. My daily checking of this board has declined because of the lastest wave of noobs and A-holes that found this board. I no longer check the board 10-20 times a day. I bet i dont check it 3-5 a week now. And because of that my bidding has slowed to as blackfoot said, it goes hand and hand. When i spend lots of time on this board i often never go a day without checking the listing on auction. last week i checked the auctions only once total.

I have found another community board to waste time at lately.

Someone keep me posted on the idoit meter over here from time to time 🙂

Making a slight change to the forum would fix the problem. Instead of posting the person's CBID username as the Author of the post, put their full name. People hide behind their username. Half the garbage would not be posted if people had their first and last name beside it.

Unfortunatley ... that is a violation of an individuals right to privacy.

There are programs (such as spam-bots) that would pick up on that information in a heartbeat ... and 'could' open up a whole world of stuff you would wish you never had to deal with.