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Here is a question for you. Should you be allowed to have the freedom to decrease the value of my property? If HOA (Home Owners Association) or other agreed upon group has in its rules that everyone has to maintain the appearance of their front yards (mowing, no junk, etc.), should you be...

If it is the Chargers, how about the "San Angeles Chargers"?

The point here is "restriction of liberty", be it in "property rights" or "speech". The rationale for restricting those rights is, well, irrelevant. We restrict freedom of speech in that instance for the common good. We restrict the property rights by contractual arrangement for the common...

I know. It is just being new here I (a) am unfamiliar with the different personalities and (b) wanted to make clear who I am.

Not really. That only works for a specific post. I was talking about a global situation where you can see the grand total breakdown for the cumulative numbers under your avatar. Thanks, though, for telling me about this one aspect. BTW, I have seen posts where there are two quote boxes. For...

I don't build a list of enemies. If I find someone obnoxious or insulting to either me or another poster, I put that person on ignore. As for disagreeing, that is what makes it a forum rather than a me-too board. IOW, not a reason to be an "enemy" or to be put on ignore.

Here are suggestions for the next round of software: Allow a user to click somewhere to see who gave him likes, dislikes, etc. Allow that list to be sortable by the user by category as to person or thread. Creating a sortable table on a web page is not that difficult. The list should appear in...

I only do the Pats forum there. It is not the admins. It is the software. Anyone can create a new account and can immediately post. So, Rusty who is "permanently" banned, can create 5-10 new accounts a day, immediately post, only to have the mods remove the thread or post as soon as they get...

I agree completely with that statement. However, my comment about ZBAs still stands. When one buys into an area, and that area has a ZBA, one is agreeing to abide by those rules. It isn't any more a "loss of freedom" or "property rights" than not being allowed to falsely yell fire in a...

Hey, yippee, I got my first "dislike". I wonder from whom (not really wondering). "Whatever". What I meant by rankings it that I see things like "Rookie", "On the Roster", "Pro bowl player" and I don't know what they mean.

I don't ignore people simply because they disagree with me. I use the ignore tool on posters that are insulting of other posters or ones that I see are just trolls. On Boston.com I am one of the heaviest users of the ignore tool. Anyway, give me time. I have only been here a couple of weeks...

No, just one. I like the agree without a post, but have a minor problem with the disagree without a post. Those two are different. Yes, though, the massive membership is both like and dislike. That is why I worded it the way I did. It is like "The good news is that although they had...

In a word - whatever.

Being a newcomer and having been here now for a couple of weeks I have some comments. This forum has many nice features that I find lacking in Boston.com forum. Among them are: Requiring validation before one can become a poster. That means that a banned poster stays banned. Links back to the...

Then I guess if you lived in my neighborhood you would have a rusted out junker car on your lawn because "technically" it is not a statue nor an ornament. Well, all I can say is that I am glad you are not my neighbor. My neighbors and I take pride in the appearance of our neighborhood.

Where I live there is a requirement that 75% of the grounds (excluding house) must be lawn as viewed from the street. This is to keep up the appearance of the neighborhood. We all knew this when we bought. One guy decided he wanted a huge circular driveway in from of his house and so he went...

IOW, you are saying I didn't get anything wrong. I also said in my original post that he didn't "technically" violate the rules -- just the spirit by exercising a loophole that was meant for other things (See my #3). Anyway, I am not *****ing about the rules. I don't care one way or the other...

My opinion this year, compared to last year, of LaFell fell.:(

Really? I think my reading comprehension is pretty darn good. I said I read it and, if nothing else, I am an honest person. I don't understand what you are getting at. What is wrong, in your opinion, with any of the following: It is an historic district There is an association that oversees the...

Well, I read the story and saw that he agreed to take it down before the end of Feb. Why wait? There are rules in the neighborhood, and while he "technically" did not violate those rules as it is a "temporary" structure, he surely had to know he was skirting around the edges and certainly...