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That's a VS, and thats agaisnt the site rules.
I'd suggest you read them, so you don't get caught out. Here

Sorry, Its my first day and I must have missed that rule.

That's OK, I just didn't want you to end up getting banned.

Thanks. Ill try to come up with some better ideas next time.

alexmann wrote:Thanks. Ill try to come up with some better ideas next time.

It's not necessarily a bad idea, but if you've checked out the bit to which Condan so graciously lined you'll notice that our esteemed hosts have a strict "no vs." policy WRT different sci-fi universes. The goal is to prevent being mired in irreconcilable fanboy debates and flame wars.

Oh, and we wouldn't ban you for the first offense. If you have pets, though...

JK. Welcome.

Mikey wrote:Welcome.

Thanks

Mikey wrote:our esteemed hosts have a strict "no vs." policy WRT different sci-fi universes. The goal is to prevent being mired in irreconcilable fanboy debates and flame wars.

They should allow VS if you have a calm sensible discussion rather than a flame war.

That never happens, it's just better to disallow it, believe us.

Sometimes it's rather hard to have a calm discussion, and sometimes people can be incredibly insensible.

Can't the discussion just be ended then or continued with only the people being sensible?

Certainly. I'm sure Ian and Graham would be happy to offer advice on starting your own forum. On THEIR forum, they've deemed it more efficacious to stop bad things before they start.

Hello there, new guy here! Actually I've been visiting the site for years, I even made this account a few years back. Just never thought to actually post though

In fact I don't think I would've bothered you guys if I hadn't noticed something a bit strange about the poll this week. I don't know if it's the right place to talk about this, but I'd rather not start a new thread for something that may be nothing. Is there an issue regarding multiple votes? I believe the site has some way of detecting if someone has already voted, but the sudden changes I've noticed this week in the poll are quite strange. Don't know if it's just my impression. If it is, just ignore this

Giuseppe wrote:Hello there, new guy here! Actually I've been visiting the site for years, I even made this account a few years back. Just never thought to actually post though

In fact I don't think I would've bothered you guys if I hadn't noticed something a bit strange about the poll this week. I don't know if it's the right place to talk about this, but I'd rather not start a new thread for something that may be nothing. Is there an issue regarding multiple votes? I believe the site has some way of detecting if someone has already voted, but the sudden changes I've noticed this week in the poll are quite strange. Don't know if it's just my impression. If it is, just ignore this

For some reaon the poll does allow multiple voting.

alexmann wrote:Can't the discussion just be ended then or continued with only the people being sensible?

No, there is no exception to the vs rule, no matter how well behaved you think you will be. Trust me I'm one of the site owners, it's not going to happen. If you don't like it I'm happy to close your account if you wish. There are plenty if other sites where you can argue vs if that is what you want.

IanKennedy wrote:

alexmann wrote:Can't the discussion just be ended then or continued with only the people being sensible?

No, there is no exception to the vs rule, no matter how well behaved you think you will be. Trust me I'm one of the site owners, it's not going to happen. If you don't like it I'm happy to close your account if you wish. There are plenty if other sites where you can argue vs if that is what you want.

Sorry, I just thought that it would be quite a good Battle. Ill try to come up with some ones that are allowed.