New Guidelines

Thank you for explaining these guidelines so carefully.
GoY is a very good group, and I appreciate the wisdom, time and thought you and Peter have invested in this necessary blog.

Let's hope your advice allows the group to run smoothly.
Thanks again for all this useful information.
Merry Christmas to you and Peter and your families.

Thanks, Ajay. As the site has grown to reach such a wide community, guidelines are now a necessity and I think that they are very helpful.

You and Peter work so hard to keep GOY the great site that it is - many thanks to you both and I send you my wishes for a Happy Christmas and a good year ahead.

~many thanks to Peter and Ajay for going to such lengths to produce a comprehensive set of rules to take us forward as GOY grows~
~My very best wishes to both for a happy Christmas and a fantastic 2009!~

Although a 'newy' I concur with all the above and wish you both a very happy Christmas and New Year.

A very Happy Christmas to you both and your familys ,

And all the best for a wonderful New Year 2009..........

Thank you for all the work you put into this brilliant site ..

Many thanks Peter and Ajay for these sensible and balanced guidelines.

We are sure they will all help to keep this a friendly gardening site.

Thanks for all your hard work, and wishing you and your families a very happy Christmas and a super 2009.
Grenville and Alan.

Merry xmas to you both and your family's thanks for making this a brill site. All the best for both of yu in 2009.

merry xmas and a happy new year peter and ajay.
this great site can only get better under your administration...............steve

These guidelines sound very fair and equitable for all....Thank You for the clarification...I, too, join the other members in wishing you the best in the coming year and may your holiday celebrations be fruitful and satisfying..

Thanks Guys, really apreciate all the hard work and effort, Merry Christmas and a Happy new year Angie & Brooke xx

I agree with all the above points and hope people will abide by them.
Merry Christmas Ajay
Merry Christmas Peter
Thank you both for all your hard work.

Triffic site, great gardeners, 'tastic friends,
long may GoY thrive
in the spirit in which it was created.
Many thanks, Peter and Ajay.

Great guidelines, if it helps this site return to the relaxed, friendly forum it has been until recently then they will be a positive addition. Let's just hope that members don't quote them out of context and obsess about picture content and acknowledging replies, etc and end up abusing things.
Merry Christmas to all and well done Peter and Ajay who have made a stirling attempt to solve the recent negative feeling on the site.

The administration is spot on. I for one am very happy with these guidelines.

All the best for the festive period guys, and I look forward to seeing everyones garden related Christmas pressies in the New Year.

Thank you both...Ajay and Peter for creating such an enjoyable site for us to share and long may it continue.......
Have a great Xmas and Happy Gardening in 2009!!

Thank you for this Peter and Ajay sure these guidelines will help goy return to the friendly welcoming site it has become known for.

Wishing you and your families much peace and happiness over Christmas and the New Year.

Sensible guidelines Guys, and you are right to be proud of such a great site.
Merry Christmas and a Happy gardening New Year to you both.

It all looks pretty sensible to me - All the best for Christmas and a great 2009!

As a very newby, I think these guideliens are great - hope they prevent some of the recent unpleasentness. Is it possible to make all newbys read them - blogs get lost in time. well done administraters. happy xmas

Thanks to Ajay and Peter. The guidelines are very sensible and straight forward. Obvious to most, but there are always those that will abuse unfortunately. I count myself lucky to have come accross this site, and meet up with such friendly and helpful people that I now consider my friends. We must all endevour to keep this site, this way . Very best wishes to All on GOY and l look forward to 2009 with you all.

Well done guys. Your guidelines are clear and to the point. This is a wonderful site full of warm and wonderful people all with one thing in common ~ gardening. You are doing a great job to keep it this way.
Wishing you both and your families a Very Merry Christmas and all good things in 2009.
~ Gilli

Yes, well done! Now that the recent unpleasantness has been dealt with the site feels happy again. Thank you Peter and Ajay - long may the site continue. Happy Christmas and very Happy and PLEASANT New Year.

Good common sense guidelines Peter and Ajay. A pity they have to be spelled out but, as a couple of people have said above, GoY is now really too wide reaching to manage without.

A Merry Christmas and a happy, peaceful and prosperous 2009 from me and mine to all of you and yours.

John.

I wonder if everyone has seen this blog. I think there are some who never read blogs so I hope they can get to see these guidelines somehow.

every site has to have guidelines and you have come up with sensible ones Peter and Ajay.
so well done.
happy Christmas guys to you and your families .

Goy is the friendliest,most helpful and also very entertaining site I have found .Thanks Ajay and Peter for all your faith and especially hard work to keep it so .Merry Christmas to you both and your families..Sue

Happily I seem to have missed the recent unpleasantness but then I don't have time to read or view much other than what I already do...the guidelines look great!

Merry Christmas to you, Peter and Ajay!

Hmmm. Does this mean we can't poke fun at Gardeningfriend anymore??

oh i do hope not Gilli lol - i think as everyone has said, common sense is needed.

Common sense prevails.... this is an excellent site, sometimes sad, more times very uplifting, so lovely to be in touch with people from all walks of life, from all over the world, with gardens big and small, just one big happy family, so let us keep it that way please.
Wishing Peter and Ajay a very Happy Christmas....you are both doing a grand job.......keep digging!!!!!!

Like Raquel, I also have not been aware of the mentioned unpleasantness, yay! This site is so great and has been such a part of my healing and growing in my life. Thank you Peter & Ajay for doing such a caring and efficient job of keeping it the best there is in the world! I love the friends I have made and look forward to all the comments and input from all. I too wonder though... what about GF does he get off now without showing us what he really looks like?? lol

If he does Pollyannaever, you will have to describe him to us in great detail......along with a few sketches of course!!

On...no Gloria.....we can't stretch that far.....we'll be waiting Xmas Eve for the great unveiling!!!

I just found this blog, all makes very good sense, it costs nothing to be polite. This past few days have been much happier now that the problem has been solved.
I add my Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year to Peter & Ajay and thank you for all your hard work.

Great Guildlines Guys & As Always You Did Your Job Well, Have Yourselfs A Merry Christmas & Happy New Year XXX

Just come across this blog.
I don't know what's been going on here, but i have always found this to be the most friendly site on the internet. I'm sure it will stay that way with your rules in place.

Thank you Peter and Ajay for this wonderful site, that I am able to reach all of you from this dot in the ocean where I live. Great advice and guidelines that we ought to be aware of.
I trust you both had a lovely Christmas, heres Wishing You A Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Keep up the excellent work in administrating the Goy Site!!! I love it!!!
Regards,
Panther...Fiji

Hi Ajay, obviously I wasn't around when you wrote this blog and missed the unpleasantness that caused it but I was just wondering what you thought of the GoY site now and how your guidelines have changed it?
I do love this site and was very pleased that you let me come back after my 'dummy throwing' fit.
Thanks from me for keeping this site such a fun place to be, as someone else recently said "its a grown up Facebook"

Cheers........Ian
PS. Can I be the first to wish you a happy christmas for 2009 Lol :-))

Thanks Ian. You are definitely the first to wish me happy christmas this year! Regarding your question I have to say they aren't really "our guidelines" - they evolved from what the community wanted. The flagging system is part of that too and allows the community of members to report anything against the guidelines. I think it is working well.

It certainly is a happy friendly site without the usual one-upmanship that you can find at other sites. Thanks for that and keep up the brill. work. :-))