Originally Posted by chachi

I was a member of one of those other forums untill they started badmouthing members of this forum. No thankyou!! At least this forum is run with classs and dignity. The posts are deleted for a reason. There is nastiness and I for one thing the Admin and Mods do a great job of keeping things form getting out of hand. You dont have that in a forum with no rules.

Originally Posted by admin

We do accept donations to help run the forum, but YorkieTalk is privately owned. Being a Donating Member does not give you any "ownership" of YT or preferential treatment, but it does have its own benefits.

Only the government is prohibited from restricting speech. Because YT is privately owned, speech can be restricted in any way that YT sees fit. If someone posts something inflammatory or negative towards YT or any member, we can delete it as we own YT, the server it resides on, and the database. We try not to restrict speech, but there are times that it is unavoidable. Threads may be closed or deleted by moderators or admins for any reason. Usually they are closed or deleted because it goes against YT rules or some other kind of problem. Threads are never closed or deleted for no reason. If there is a thread that is beneficial to Yorkie owners and is crucial that all Yorkie owners read it, we would not delete that thread, just as we haven't in the past. The threads that are deleted are usually ones that end up with many personal attacks.

YT tries to be as neutral as possible and we do not close threads because we have a particular opinion on a subject. If we see 5 new (or active) threads on the same subject, we may close 4 of the threads as we try to avoid redundancy and so all discussion will be focused on the one remaining thread.

Yes, there are other Yorkie sites and forums. No one is forcing you to stay at YorkieTalk. However, there are some other forums which cause us problems and we thus will not allow any Yorkie forum free publicity or discussion. There have been serious issues and problems with other Yorkie forums in the past, which is why we do not allow any links or discussions about other Yorkie forums here on YT.

As this is a community site, we want to keep the atmosphere friendly, and often times, heated threads turn into huge arguments and name-calling, which leads to suspensions and or banned users, which we try to avoid. We have tried in the past to keep hotly-debated threads open, but it never works. It always turns out ugly. So threads may be closed before that happens.

It makes YT members and YT itself look bad when someone that is a new (a new member or potential new member) is on YorkieTalk for the first time sees a bunch of name-calling and childish behavior. This is what we are trying to avoid as we want to make this as friendly and welcoming a community as possible, though undoubtedly problems will still happen at times.

Originally Posted by red98vett

For all you Nosy Nellies out there - That was Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :D

I want to thank Irene for being a woman about it and taking the time to talk to me and accept my apology for coming on a little strong....it was in a thread somewhere in this section.... ...Because we talked it over privately .....something that could possibly be uncomfortable will go NO further ....and I feel much better too :D

Originally Posted by troubletb

Ok So everyone loves everyone!! How cute!!, Now where is the nexy knock down, drag out fight!!???? LOL ;)

Originally Posted by YorkieRini

And for the record..Kim is driving me CRAZY with all the no spay and neuter stuff...lololol...I'm sure I'm driving her just as Crazy..but it's all good stuff and let's others make the choice we've made.. :thumbup:

Originally Posted by YorkieRini

Me too Nicole....you sound just like me..! Being the anal person that I am, I wouldnt say that the world would be boring if we all agreed..lololololololol. :p

Originally Posted by BabyFidgette

Hey, maybe the world wouldn't be boring to you if we all agreed with you! :lol tears You're right, though, the world would be a better place if they all agreed with ME ME ME!!!! :D