All Forum Users - important notice!!

You are kidding!

A ban!

Need more details however sketchy; copyright, fun police, ???? Can't think of anything else!

bill

this forum is going further down the toilet year after year
what a shame mechpete

I am getting to really HATE big brother the way 'they' control my life. :-(

Truly understand David & Michelle your dilemma.

So, can anyone just put up a random joke? And not be replied with other jokes?
I actually had to check it wasn’t Friday or April 1 .
But do understand the problem .
We are slowly becoming controlled by our machines!

Well - do ya reckon we can trick them and call it .........


Fictional Stories For Friday !
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What makes you laugh on Wednesday ?
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No humour involved so Don't Read Monday.
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Tickle ya bone Tuesday.
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Hear anything humorous while you were away Saturday.
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Anything Make you Laugh on your last adventure Thursday.



This is more stupid than the new Covid-19 rule of keeping a social distance of 1.5 metres away from other people on public transport !

Bring back the 50's and 60's I say



Happy safe and please don't laugh travels

Gazz

That's a shame Michelle, but not the end of the world. The rest of the site has all that I'm looking for.

Keep smiling !!

Cheers
Jim

I feel your Pain Michelle.

Disappointing but understandable.

What about this as an idea. People submit FF to EO off the main site, out of sight from Google, then it gets emailed to members???

Isn't this amazing that these massive social media enterprises propagate all sorts of racial and sexual content, child abuse material, and extreme political material from both the far right and the far left which leads to murder and mayhem all over the world - and yet a few harmless jokes on a forum like ours are shut down.
And in return we are flooded with reams of useless (or worse) advertising rubbish.
Madness !!

I know the site can't do what I do but I use duckduckgo to remove myself from googles clasp.

Any suggestions for sites to visit where humour is not yet seen as a threat to world peace? Need a regular fix in this increasingly crazy world. We like to think that we use Google. Unfortunately Googles' use of us is insidious Keep smiling!

Maybe a poor business model for the site to be so reliant on Google.

I dont see any of my other 20 4wd sites having this issue and their content that could be censored by American prudes is far worse than is on this site.

I guess I'll be relying on usenet for my dose of humour, amongst other things, more now.

Bad timing, what with the current spate of toilet paper hoarding.

I suppose this would also get banned ...

Michelle, I think this was an inevitable decision. It’s a blessing that it was made by Google.

Joke threads can get out of hand very quickly. Boundaries are pushed and what one person finds funny another one will find offensive.

As an example, look at the proliferation of the F bomb and, even worse, the C bomb, on social media.

I think you will see more people return to the forum than leave.

I was a long time member and purchased many dollars worth of product from the shop.

I dropped out primarily due to attending a National Gathering, winning a major prize from an advertiser only to be told, 'Oh, we aren't doing that trip this year'.

Now that wasn't funny. Now we can't even have a laugh due to censorship - and we just sit back and cop it.

We are happy to toss our principles out the window for a piece of silver.

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No loss to me. I gave up visiting Friday Funnies long ago.
I considered it was like walking down an open sewer.

As a relatively ad hoc user of this site I do routinely drop in to have look at the Friday Funnies.

I wonder whether this is a classic case of "cutting off your nose to spite your face". I agree that Google Ad words are a wonderful source of revenue for website owners. But if changing some of things that drew your users to the website in the first place means losing what made Exploroz great, then that could result in longer term outcomes which may not be desirable from a business perspective.

I do respect the right of a business to be adaptable and flexible to change and to implement difficult decisions if need be. However, for me personally this will make the site less attractive to view the musings and antics of the regular players. Potentially resulting in Exploroz not being at the forefront of my thinking when I am considering mapping software purchases, etc.

I think that too many website owners lose sight of the of the original objective for running the site in the first place. Ad words will never bring more eye balls to your site but changing your rules and adapting it to meet the rules of an algorithm, that lets face it can change at anytime, is stepping on thin ice in my opinion.

I hope that it turns out to be a great decision and that everything goes well for you in the future.

Regards,

Geoff

I fully support the decision taken by the administrators on this issue. Like Allan, I stopped reading the “Friday Funnies” months about.

Macca.

G’day Allan and Macca and any others that thought the funnies were too rough sometimes.
That’s your choice, but haven’t some things been deleted by moderation in the past? Not everyone is straight laced. And I certainly think some things shouldn’t be available to the public, but where do you draw the lines of censorship? That’s a hard call I reckon, I’ll leave that decision to someone else.
Cheers all

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