Board Note, from the Admin

[Admin]

Just some notes and reminders.

This is a self moderated board. It always was and still is. That means that if you think there is a problem you need to bring it to our attention by using the post reporting tool.

Upon reporting a post please be patient as we often have to read several posts and concur with other Admins unless something is blatent.

And reporting an Admin is taken into consideration too. But remember that Admin are board users also and are allowed to have and express opinions just as you are.

If an Admin feels they need to take action now, be it a ban or a forum closure, and you feel such action was unwarranted, please contact one of the admin. Very often we take an action and then discuss things.

The reason for that is part of the reason for this next point. Besides the forum rules our purpose is to have a smooth running forum. This takes both YOU and US. There may be times we feel the need to take some sort of action that might not be a clear violation of forum rules, but simply because the smooth operation of the board is being disruptive.

An example might be a public spat between two individuals that end up taking over a thread and taking it off topic. In that case it might be best to take that to PM. But, if not and it appears to be disruptive to the rest of the board then we might have to take action. This can be subjective at times, but you have to realize there are other board members here.

When we do take an action towards an individual it may not necessarily be apparent to the entire board. We may have had to talk to that individual in private.

Consider that rarely is just one person out of line around here. If people across the aisle are both out of line either side is going to expect us to give them a pass while taking action against the other side. That is just not going to happen.

The solution is for everyone to behave, not lash back and report the post. What does not work is to reciprocate and then complain about the other person's behavior.

Also, consider that if you attempt to stir up the pot, do not be surprised that someone bites, after all that is what stirring the pot is intended for.

Finally, very often what we have to "adjust" around here is not opinions but HOW those opinions are expressed.

This remains an Apostolic board. Not everyone has ever agreed though on the hows and whys of Apostolic doctrine. It was never that way. Please when discussing your views do not take a mocking or flippant tone with each other. Treat each other as dear brothers and sisters in the Lord. It might be that you need to step back for a time and pray about that.

If you have thoughts on how to make the board better for all users feel free to drop one of us a note in PM.

God bless

1Co 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1Co 13:3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1Co 13:4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
1Co 13:5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
1Co 13:6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
1Co 13:7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1Co 13:8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1Co 13:9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
1Co 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
1Co 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
1Co 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.