[benos]

This forum requires excessive moderation due to real and imagined slights against IDPA. As a result the Moderating Team has discussed deleting the IDPA Forum altogether. We've decided to keep it for now, by a narrow margin with some stipulations:

Please post respectfully or don't post at all.

No antagonistic tones will be tolerated.

The attitude that questioning a rule is "bashing" or anti-IDPA must stop. As long as the question is posted in a constructive manner there is no reason not to discuss a rule. That said, topics that have been covered ad nauseum may be closed. Please use the search feature.

Threads or posts not following this spirit will be locked or deleted, and offenders will be banned from posting. Please, for the life of the IDPA Forum and the constructive input gained from it, participate appropriately.

Members who can't post politely or who come here merely to bash IDPA or IDPA's rules will receive a 7 day suspension from The Forums upon their first offense. A second offense will incur a 30 day suspension from The Forums.

Thank you,
The Moderating Team

[Duane Thomas]

Fellow IDPA shooters,

From its very inception, BrianEnos.com has enjoyed a reputation as being an oasis of civility on the Internet. The sort of sarcasm, ego conflicts, rudeness, etc. that is accepted as common behavior on other shooting-related message boards simply doesn't fly here. It never has, and it never will. Recently the IDPA forum has experienced what I can only describe as an excessive number of complaints directed at the Rule Book, with an unacceptable lack of basic politeness demonstrated in numerous posts. This forum has required a huge amount of moderation, so much so it has become a very real problem for the moderators. We as IDPA shooters have this one little corner of BE.com set aside for ourselves. Surely we can behave ourselves better in it than this? While rules questions and discussion will always be welcome, if your input into the IDPA forum consists primarily of complaining about the rules, or comments like, "That's why I don't shoot IDPA anymore," with no other helpful input, then you need to go somewhere else to air them. There are many other shooting-related message boards on the 'net that will welcome you.

Also, please reread the Forum Guidelines, a link to which may be found at the top left of every page on these forums, especially the part that reads:

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Intent
This Forum is for firearm, technique, and conceptual discussions pertaining to training and competition. (And various unrelated topics.) While the occasional defensive shooting post is not prohibited, in general, defensive shooting discussions or debates are discouraged.

While IDPA was indeed intended by its founders to simulate self-defense scenarios in a competitive environment, and thus an occasional post straying into that area may be unavoidable, it has been the experience of the moderators from observing other shooting-related message boards that any time the discussion of "real-world self-defense" is given free rein, invariably it swiftly degenerates into the sort of rudeness and ego conflicts previously discussed. Again there are many message boards on the 'net that will welcome such discussion. This is not, however, one of them.

[Flexmoney]

Flexmoney, on Sep 9 2009, 11:02 PM, said:

We've done some tweaking to the IDPA forum.

A week or so ago, Brian added some wording to the rules. That is up as a sticky thread. (they got a little bit heavier...for the folks that drop in to stir the pot, and aren't really here because they are into IDPA).

Duane added some more good verbiage to help clarify.



We also just added a whole new and improved IDPA Rules sub-forum.

With the IDPA Course Of Fire (COF design) sub-forum and now the IDPA Rules sub-forum...that will leave the general IDPA forum open to regular old IDPA questions...hopefully in a more comfortable manner (for those that aren't as interested in the sub-topics).



- Mod Squad