Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Brother John. This is "discussion forum". Maybe living in Sweden you have forgotten what discussions are all about. Discussions are conversations.
Indeed an international forum like this is all about, the WHOLE POINT is about what you derisively call "pub talk" and imply that there is something wrong with it.
What else do you think this forum is? A technical discussion forum? Now personally I would love to know exact detail of all the cars like bore and stroke and valve sizes, and gearbox and final drive, turbocharger internal parts dimensions and I would be overjoyed to know the suspension travel, valving and spring rates.....
But that is because I work full time building rally motors and suspension..
The fact that people don't discuss that stuff here, and instead just do "pub talk" means that's what they want to do.
In real life much of the depth and texture comes from what some people consider "off topic"...
Further with so many different home languages and widely different cultures, and ways of speaking it is often needed a little time to understand the point of what some may say, some discussion first---to even begin to know if something is "off topic"...
Nothing personal but you fundamentally have misunderstood what the point of a social gathering like this forum is supposed to be.
You have become the "classic" bad moderator disturbing and disrupting conversations solely because of your own personal---not "forum-ular" whims.
For the good of the forum, you should request Mark to demote you back to being just an ordinary guy just like the rest of us..
Nothing can kill a forum like a heavy handed immoderate moderator..