Horological Meandering

AndrewD
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EVERYONE PLEASE READ ...

... including Bernard, who I have written to off-line as well.

The Moderator team temporarily removed these posts to give us time to converse with Bernard privately. But we feel it is best to reinstate them and clarify our position.

PuristS is a large community of individuals with different approaches, tastes, interests and ideas. We come from all walks of life, many different countries, speak different languages, are different ages and, my goodness, are even different genders! It's that rich tapestry that makes PuristS so wonderful and strong.

Many of you will know and love Bernard's contributions. There are more memorable ones than otherwise. Bernard and a few others here bring a somewhat left field, even iconoclastic view to collecting and life in general. Even his more outrageous posts are often thought-provoking and prompt us to consider other viewpoints. If we all did that, there might be fewer conflicts in this world.

But because of Bernard's somewhat different world view, he sometimes skates a little close to the edge. You may be aware that we have needed to censor or delete the occasional post, particularly given our diverse readership.

I am leaving this post up (with the removal of the petting ring image – those of you who care about this stuff have heard of Google!) as a reminder to all to consider others when you post content on PuristSPro. We try not to be heavy handed here when it comes to censoring content. I have enormous faith in my fellow PuristS to be understanding, balanced and fair, and to treat others as you would want to be treated yourself. The responses in this thread already indicate a degree of self censorship and the application of high standards that makes me proud of all of you

I also hope that Bernard is not using this post as a shill for his personal blog. You all know we delete links to external sites, but I don't want to see any poster manipulating posts for their own gains.

Regards

Andrew
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