Again, the Lounge IS supposed to be an [almost] anything goes forum. That's the whole point of it. Seems like your problem with it, like mine, is that it also merges the old "Tech Issues" forum (see MFIF archives). So maybe the real request is to have tech issues removed from the Lounge, not vice-versa?
Of course much of the proliferation of tech issues in the Lounge is because of the mods moving anything that is not specifically a troubleshooting question there. I think that practice is confusing and not user friendly, especially since most forums don't differentiate between a tech discussion and a tech question the way the mods do here. For example, personally I believe that a discussion of Mac networking without a specific troubleshooting question is just as useful to readership of the Networking forum as a specific question. If the mods want to differentiate, I would either (1) tag questions as such and optionally allow the OP to mark as solved/helpful/etc, while also allowing discussions in the same forum, or (2) create other tech discussion forums. Moving useful technical discussions to a catch-all Lounge forum where they sit next to random and often irrelevant threads and are therefore essentially lost to anyone but hardcore devotees doesn't serve the best interest of anyone, IMHO. Never has.
Don, I completely agree with you. Since I have no way of communicating with you other than posting to you in public here, Don, I completely agree with you.
If you weren't on-line earlier, I had some posts deleted because they were not
exactly pertinent to the thread that I posted them in. They were perfectly harmless cheerful bits of discussion but OFF TOPIC, so off they went. Having noticed this, I posted "why". I then had an email, explaining. All those posts are gone now so you only have my (and the Mod in question's) word on this.
All grist to my mill. Let us have an Off Topic forum and there's no more deleting peoples' posts just because they do not
100% comply with solving problems! I'm not a Mod-Basher, but I'm not a child either.
I suppose now I've reported this in public this post will get deleted too. :-(
