Have at it with the insider jokes I’m sticking my neck out here but could someone explain the history/controversy behind the “Tavern”?
I’d seen references long ago, now and than, and didn’t pay much attention but I’m increasingly seeing chatter related to being banned and the Tavern. I’ve also seen the phrase attached to “newbie” post or just bad questions.
So what’s the story behind the Tavern?
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It was a permission only folder at the bottom of BT's regular threads. Some wisen-hiemers goy carried away and got ..well..carried away. SO NOW , no NEW access is being granted, and the ones that got the "Boot" have various sanctions against them, sme are gona altogther, some are read only ( evrywhere xcept there) and some just had the TAV ban applied.
It had to do with rules and violations, but the head office has yet to clarify.
Yes, you are playing with fire ( as am I, by responding) right now.
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How do you suppose the level of access is decided? Perhaps a meeting in the Star Chamber? Your opinion sir?
It appears there is no more access. Either you're in or you're not.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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I wonder if the last 'person' in the Tavern will know they're alone.
nah. I can talk to myself for awhile before I realize nobody's listening.
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nothing like a captive audience, eh?
So violators are banished to the Tavern, not from the Tavern but you need a key to get in, like a Martha Stewart prison sentence?
Sooo references in newbie's postings and the Tavern have to do with walking the line of being not so nice of replies and risking banishment?
If the reasons are mainly foulness why degrade such a pleasant sounding place to visit as the "Tavern" Where we all look to go at the end of a hard day of fine home building, and not call the place "work", "home", or "The Septic Tank"?
No, violaters are not allowed in, nor are ANY new members or past BANNED members.
Just a few of us that were in the bathroom having a smoke are still in the tav. and locked doors keep it civil.
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Edited 12/2/2008 4:17 pm ET by Sphere
"in the bathroom having a smoke .."
Me, I was passed out in the kitchen. Never knew what happened.
my take on the Tavern was that it was a mix of real world emotion locked in a sterile environment............sterility won.It was also proof positive that the internet will never replace a good face to face BS session.............So, as one of the bannees, the experiment is over and all the familiar vibrations dismissed to manifest themselves in other ways.
My thoughts are they want to kill the tavern and are happy to watch it slowly wither.
The problem is eventually all the topics that normally come up in the tarvern are going to start polluting the rest of the discussion headings again.
so when a topic comes up thats not appropriate,they wil blow it the tavern,then it will be kinda like my pharse at the bottom.
if no one is there to read it does it really matter.kind of a built in garbage disposal.
tavern doen't mean squat to me really,but i'm real surprised this hasn't already found it's way there.if a man speaks in the forest,and there's not a woman to hear him,is he still wrong?
Let's get real here.The Tavern is NOT a tavern. It is an on-line, off-topic discussion section in a very much topic related on-line forum. The rules of the latter very much apply to the former. When people start to see themselves as above the rules and more important than the intent of the owners of the forum something is going to break and in this case it was the off-topic section.It may come back if it calms down or it may not. Once those who were booted accept reality and either move on or begin to function within acceptable parameters under a new ID, we'll find out.The likelihood is that it will become quite milquetoast as Knots did after the blowup over there a couple of years back. We can thank those who went so far overboard and who now refuse to accept Taunton's taking back control for spoiling what was once a pretty good thing for everyone.
Edited 12/2/2008 4:57 pm by observer
The Tavern was created to separate the discussions unrelated to magazine content, from the discussion that were related to the magazine content, ie. FineHome Building. In the past there some very heated flaming wars and some folks got too abusive. Usually, these were on political hot button issues. They lost the priveledges of participating in this forum. Sometimes in the past, people were suspended temporarily. Whomever has the unenviable task of trying to keep the inmates from running the asylum, has cracked down more than some would like. They whine and complain about it but not as bad as they make it out to be. Like any real Tavern, if you get obnoxious enough, often enough, you will get bounced.
That was good.