Newbies to the Board...

[andrawes76]

Hey guys, I'd like to just suggest that we try to engage newbies to the forum by giving them the benefit of the doubt first. Donnaclif was an obvious front to veer folks to another site, but if someone is new and pulls a stunt like that one the first post, let's just set some nice, but firm rules and ask them politely to post on the advertising thread instead of playing cop. Not that I don't get a kick out of it, but I've noticed new folks to the site are substantially down and perhaps that could be due to intimidation. Its just a thought and I do appreciate what we are all trying to do which is just talk about wine and have some fun doing it. When the new site goes live in days from now, and we start pumping traffic into the website, I'm actually going to get on the horn to call some old Forum folks up who haven't posted in ages and see if they'd entertain coming back.