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Originally posted by Memnoch:
I've been wondering why there's so few people posting in this forum yet the overwhelming majority of complaints we receive is from here. With the response to a very reasonable request I posted - to not use sarcasm to disrespect and demean others - I have the answer I was looking for. Maybe you "regulars" have been so used to the way you treat each other in here that you assume that you can treat everyone else the same way.
Is THIS the kind of forum you want? One where only a select few can participate? Sorry, but this is not going to happen. It's just not worth the time and energy for us to maintain it and settle disputes between people on a regular basis. I'm a moderator, not a judge.
Actually Memnoch, with respect ... your comment about so few people posting here. Many have left for the opposite reason - that they cannot have a heated debate about issues without subjecting everything they say to major censorship. I am aware that it is also very true that many have left because they found the forum too confrontational. Like I said, you can't please everyone all of the time. People have left for a variety of reasons.
To be honest, when there is no proper 'debate' going on and everyone is just agreeing with each other, I don't bother, and nor do many others. Sometimes the forum moves so slowly that you get just a couple of posts a day, most of them by Ron_B, who I'm sure gets bored talking to himself...
The whole point of debate is to air different and often conflicting views, and learn more about each other in the process. I've had some great interactions with people on here that I've disagreed with intensly, - we've even made 'friends'!! via email. That's pretty positive, if you ask me.