I'm confused

Dave G, I hear you, but unfortuanately IFAS's bandwidth costs don't allow us to have a much interesting General forum!

Anyway,if we do go "off topic" why not make it an "interesting" topic.

A singing turkey is not as interesting as this:

library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm

Hi Guys,

I don't have a problem with the rules. It's just that when I checked the Board Rules posted in General that one didn't jump out at me, and I'm used to dissecting some pretty convoluted stuff.

I know that you don't want to make a rule for every occasion but perhaps a short clear statement of that one would save the mods some work?

Regards,

John

Hi Guys,

I don't have a problem with the rules. It's just that when I checked the Board Rules posted in General that one didn't jump out at me, and I'm used to dissecting some pretty convoluted stuff.

I know that you don't want to make a rule for every occasion but perhaps a short clear statement of that one would save the mods some work?

Regards,

John

A fair point.

I've stuck the following pre-amble into the rules:

Preamble

The aim of these boards is to provide a free and open venue for the discussion of Astronomy related topics. We ask that users try to keep things astronomy related. There are many forums for general discussion on the internet, for Irish users we recommend www.boards.ie for such discussions.

The short version of the rules boils down to just keeping things Astronomy related and being nice to each-other.

And changed the description of the general forum to:

For those astronomy related topics that don't fit anywhere else.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious shortcomings in our rules post.

Bart.

I agree with all the above. This is an astronomy site guys.

Nice one Bart - I think that clarifies it.