I feel like I should clarify a little about humor and why some posts were deleted. Honestly, the first couple pages of humor were totally fine and okay and intended to be fun (from what I can tell, anyway). As it kept going on a little too far, though, it then seemed appropriate to just go ahead and delete all post that were "off topic" -- so that's why I went back to page 1 and deleted *all* of them together. In other words, this does *not* mean that all of the posts were deleted was bc they were inappropriate...not at all; many of them were just in good humor, very clearly.
Maybe an example too? When Phil said "food fight!" -- that was funny and was very clearly meant to add a little levity to an often heavy subject here. But if/when someone later uses humor disguised as disdain...that's when we start getting into the arena where humor is going to disparage rather than just be funny and lighthearted. (
Edited later to clarify: and I don't mean here that it was Phil who went "off-tone" w/ the humor; was just using his perfectly funny comment "food fight" as a good example of what is truly funny.
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Humor is good / okay!!!! If it kinda takes over a thread, derails it, and/or starts to head into some off-tone area...then, well...we may need to clean up the thread a bit. And that was the case here, that's all
. No huge deal here.
I think sometimes, too, that maybe some folks don't realize when their humor may come off as disparaging...? I think sometimes that is confusing for people. And that's understandable to a certain point. Hopefully, it's not intended to be off-color...but sometimes it does read that way nonetheless.
Clear as mud, then?
Please understand we're just trying to strike a balance here in this section where we can all have discussions without getting too upset and/or with a greater/improved tolerance of what others are interested in here as sources or links or whatnot.