There are three sub forums at THR that are different than the rest of the board. Legal, Strategies, Tactics and Training and Activism are different and they are moderated differently. What makes these forums different is that they deal with serious subjects. That’s why we don’t allow the normal shooters sitting around after a day at the range BS session type posts.
Activism is for discussion of ways to promote RKBA. That’s why political rants aren’t permitted there.
At one time you had to be a registered member to even see the ST&T forum. That was changed many years ago. Now anyone can surf in and read ST&T. Google bots read it and threads and posts show up in search results. This forum and the legal forum are moderated with that fact in mind. The last thing any of us want is for someone to do something stupid and/or illegal based on something they read here.
There are very few correct answers to the subjects we discuss here. There is no one size fits all answer to questions about auto v revolver, caliber, how many reloads to carry. But for some reason those are the most contentious topics here. There are a lot of members who are convinced that their personal choice is the only correct one. I suppose that’s normal. But we try not to be hardware focused here. This forum is more about the software and how to use what you have with you to solve the problem.
I’ve been moderating these forums since the 1990s. I’ve moderated on the old Tactical Forums and on Lightfighter as well as THR. One thing I’ve learned is that tone and inflection are hard to express in the format we use. It’s very easy to misread a post and think you’re being called out.
A different opinion is not being called out. As I said there are very few correct answers here. No one wins a discussion here in ST&T. There are no prizes. Keep an open mind. I can’t remember the number of times I’ve discovered that something I “knew to be true” wasn’t or that it wasn’t true all of the time. The topics we discuss here are constantly evolving. We need to be open to new information. And we especially need to recognize that there is no answer that is correct for everybody in every situation to the question of auto or revolver, sub compact or full size, caliber or how many reloads to carry. There are only opinions on those subjects and for every opinion expressed there is a situation where that won’t be the right answer.
We don’t ban a lot of members here. Lately some of the discussions have gotten heated enough that they could result in bans if they were left to run. We don’t want to ban threads on those topics as there is always something to learn. Let’s not get so personally invested in those topics. “Winning the thread” isn’t worth it.
I’ve got nothing to prove here and neither does anyone else. Let’s just have civil and productive discussions.
Activism is for discussion of ways to promote RKBA. That’s why political rants aren’t permitted there.
At one time you had to be a registered member to even see the ST&T forum. That was changed many years ago. Now anyone can surf in and read ST&T. Google bots read it and threads and posts show up in search results. This forum and the legal forum are moderated with that fact in mind. The last thing any of us want is for someone to do something stupid and/or illegal based on something they read here.
There are very few correct answers to the subjects we discuss here. There is no one size fits all answer to questions about auto v revolver, caliber, how many reloads to carry. But for some reason those are the most contentious topics here. There are a lot of members who are convinced that their personal choice is the only correct one. I suppose that’s normal. But we try not to be hardware focused here. This forum is more about the software and how to use what you have with you to solve the problem.
I’ve been moderating these forums since the 1990s. I’ve moderated on the old Tactical Forums and on Lightfighter as well as THR. One thing I’ve learned is that tone and inflection are hard to express in the format we use. It’s very easy to misread a post and think you’re being called out.
A different opinion is not being called out. As I said there are very few correct answers here. No one wins a discussion here in ST&T. There are no prizes. Keep an open mind. I can’t remember the number of times I’ve discovered that something I “knew to be true” wasn’t or that it wasn’t true all of the time. The topics we discuss here are constantly evolving. We need to be open to new information. And we especially need to recognize that there is no answer that is correct for everybody in every situation to the question of auto or revolver, sub compact or full size, caliber or how many reloads to carry. There are only opinions on those subjects and for every opinion expressed there is a situation where that won’t be the right answer.
We don’t ban a lot of members here. Lately some of the discussions have gotten heated enough that they could result in bans if they were left to run. We don’t want to ban threads on those topics as there is always something to learn. Let’s not get so personally invested in those topics. “Winning the thread” isn’t worth it.
I’ve got nothing to prove here and neither does anyone else. Let’s just have civil and productive discussions.