This is a nice thread, and i really have learnt alot from it, and i acknowlege the senior members of NL, mustay and others.
But still i will not watch while insults are flying around (had to clear some) - no offence to anybody. And i am both new to this board (in fact just started browsing this board after becoming moderator) - so you guys should exercise some patience with me.

@dhtml you are doing a good job dhtml , i think we should all help the admin and report forum violations , i try to use the "report to a moderator" link but that doesnt seem to work because nothing get done, , anyway keep up the good work.

dhtml:

This is a nice thread, and i really have learnt alot from it, and i acknowlege the senior members of NL, mustay and others.
But still i will not watch while insults are flying around (had to clear some) - no offence to anybody. And i am both new to this board (in fact just started browsing this board after becoming moderator) - so you guys should exercise some patience with me.

There will always be passionate debate in a public forum, so don't get carried away in the delete game.

There will always be passionate debate in a public forum, so don't get carried away in the delete game.

i think we all hold it a duty to hold a clean discussion , objective, to the point, one without name calling and insults. the mod has every right to remove offensive comments

Thank you very much, and the report to moderator works - i have a filter that helps me separate mails from nairaland (for instance i got bigrovar's report) so i see them immediately i come online. I am watching this entire board - and try to keep track of things going on - and i read the forum rules - whatever is not clear i discuss with seun - and i encourage you guys to stick to forum rules - no insults and all that.
Moderation is not a show of power - if people read the rules and do everything right - there will be no need of moderation.

The rules for moderators is that, if a thread degenerate to insults, the moderator has the right to lock the thread, remove the insults in his/her own leisure time and unlock the thread.

So far i have not locked any thread - i try to remove the insults as fast as possible - and because this board has been running without moderation for some time, i have to straighten out alot of things especially the scammers.

Just to know what the Linux/Windows issue is about, I think I'm going to get Linux installed on my laptop.