Let me ask you Adam, where do you think we should draw the line on this forum? What is your perspective? If you were me, what would your policy be?
oh he$$ Jon, I'm such an easy going guy that my policy would probably be *way* different than one you would find appropriate. but if I looked at whole thing from a business person's perspective, like you, since you are a business person, I would say that "drawing the line" in terms of what's acceptable and what isn't might happen at any one of these points...
=> excessive use of profanity outside the watercooler
=> any posts relating to proposed romantic encounters betwween 2 people
=> posts that demean other people and put them down/criticize them, but only those that are seriously obvious and outside the watercooler only
that's about all I have, sir. one thing that is NOT inappropriate, and something that I get plenty of heat around here for, are posts
like this one by me where I'm simply having fun / relating to a new member. but that's a classic case I've seen many times in this business Jon.....where another engineer (usually very talented) takes things *way* too seriously and ends up confusing the living the he$$ out of everyone because they've got so much of an "everything must be perfect / everyone must get along" attitude, it stifles the ability of different people, from different cultures, to explore one another and learn from each other. In this particular case, I'm speaking of situations I've seen in countless number of employers where people who write software or work in IT are in their own little world and refuse to expand out of their "shell" of "security" and the "way to do things". But that *IS* actually changing, you know? Have you seen this article in the news that appeared recently?
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...ence-is-one-of-the-fastest-growing-job-skills
and NO, I'm not picking on Colin specifically in this post, although he has become a key figure in the referenced thread above because he says that he'll be collaborating with the other mods about me, and probably Richard too. Maybe regarded who started what? I don't care really. But Richard and I should not be talking about our usual stuff in an intro thread from someone else, obviously. So that's on both of us.