Why can’t we have a forum where we leave the gloves at the door? We sign an agreement that promises not to hold Jon liable. No moderators allowed. If you want to act like a gentleman fine, or throw the F bomb that’s ok too. I would be willing to fork out a few pieces of sliver if necessary.
The problem with that is people would have to police themsleves as to which forum they posted in. Some of the more turgid, often repeated posters, deny they are being anything other than reasonable, benevolent to those who actually they are belittling , they wont want to be in the no holds barred section, instead prefering a more passive unwilling target.
The weapon of choice or the symptom of many a culprit, is repitition not the F bomb, and they are in complete denial that the problems got anything to do with them.
My suggestion would be to have a voting button for each post. Do we have that?
That way everyone could get a feeling of the mood of the rest of the forum. People wouldnt have to waste time on problem posters explaining the problem, and a problem poster couldn't claim they were a harmoniuos member, with just a few unreasonable objections when in reality post after post is getting 50 thumbs down.
Some posts will be unpopular, some will be supposed to be unpopular. But at least there will be no denying whats what as there seems to be now.