Separating fact from Fantasy

[Admin Team]

In the last two weeks there have been no less than three threads with sensible starts that have been hijacked by the 'what if' brigade and the staff have had to move them to the Railway Ideas, Proposals and Suggestions board..

Not only is it annoying to the rest of the members, especially the Original Poster, it is also rather discourteous to the OP. What then has made it worse in the cases mentioned is that (usually) two members have used the threads to have a go at each others' ideas, getting more and more acrimonious and personal.

We have been fairly tolerant about this up to now, but if we have to move any more threads due to the fantasists taking over and hijacking them we will take far stronger action regarding the individuals concerned.

[Phil]

Unfortunately we've had to put this announcement back on top since there have been yet more cases of members who've not bothered to read it, or chosen to ignore it.

Sorry to the rest of you.