[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by Ziroc: Cerek, I hope when you said that, you meant THIS 'Current Events' Forum. Because the rest of Ironworks Forum is very polite, and the people are respectful. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Yes, Ziroc, I did mean the rudeness and impolite behavior was exclusive to the Current Events forum. I thought that was evident from my remarks, but perhaps not - I should have specified that my comments were meant for the actions ONLY in the Current Events forum.

In fact, the decline in decency can be directly traced to these type topics being removed from the General Discussions forum. I don't know why that occurred, exactly, and it isn't meant to imply that threads never got outta hand in G.D. because a few did. But the War Forum was the beginning - when members were allowed a little more freedom to express themselves and their views and then carried over to C.E. when it was formed. I know many members (myself included) clamored loudly for the Current Events forum to be created so we could continue the type of discussions held in the War Forum. I was glad to see it at first, but the Freedom of Expression allowed on the forum slowly evolved into Freedom to be Rude to each other. Expressing passionately led to simply insulting those that disagreed with you - even to the point of making very vulgar remarks about members heritage and parents.

I truly hope everyone here will be mature enough to realize that we have ALL contributed to the problem at one time or another and that we will ALL take strides to prevent this type of behavior from occurring anymore.