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dhranch wrote:

longtooth wrote:Welcome to the board.[...]
With all due respect sir you are not the first that has had a better way to do this successful board than our leader, Charles Cotton.

Working on a way to show, in the Terms of Membership, respect and gratitude for the sincere contributions of dedicated members would, IMHO, be "a better way" than what is in place now in the Terms.

Finding a way of efficiently dealing with spammers and cross-posts as part of that would take some effort, but it is worth doing on any forum, like this one, that desires and appreciates high quality contributions.

When I read phrases like the "With all due respect sir" intro above, I often get the feeling that the writer is meaning the opposite - especially, in this example, considering the rest of the sentence. I think the usage is characteristic of some groups of people, especially the use of "sir" in a derogatory manner. I translate, in this case, "With all due respect" to include "(which is not much, in my opinion)". Am I mistaken?