THE KETTLE

I have to agree that at times the Kettle got a bit too hot. I'd often read it but rarely posted there because if your views differed with anyone, you were fair game for slaughter. A code of conduct would make it easier to express those off topic views>>>

Well, we COULD play nice, but then we would lose the insight that comes from observing someone cross the line. I find it very instructive to see how some people handle (or mishandle) criticism (or appearance of dissent with their point of view).>>>

I doubt "The Kettle" will ever be back. For some, there is just "too much" freedom of speech (when it doesn't jive with what they believe).

Roofscape is right. An Off-Topic section would be good. But Gosh forbid that we should ever actually have a>>>

I appreciated what you were trying to do with the Kettle.

I always thought that the flaw with it was that conversations meander. You don't know where they are going to end up. If you know that a thread you are starting belongs in the Kettle, maybe yo>>>

Hated it then, would hate it now. I'm sure I missed a lot of good posts by Troop cuz I never went there.>>>

I would like to see an "Off Topic" thread but not necessarily the "Kettle".

Would be nice to have off topic conversations without innidating the thread history page under roofing topics. And the "Kettle" is a little too foul languaged for my virgin>>>