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.
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.