I have noticed over the past couple weeks an onslaught of negativity within the forums and not limited to the chit chat section or PM's.

While being critical of a design, a piece of code or an idea is acceptable the trend is towards the degradation of and attacks upon a person rahter than their work.

Threads move away from the original purpose to become arguments between 2 or more unrelated to the thread. This discounts the reason for the thread as well as distracts from achieving results with the thread.

I would like to make a suggestion relative to these "fall offs" within a thread. I think it would be a good idea if they were deleted by a moderator and/or moved to the chit chat area for further discussion. Of course this requires "active moderation" of the forums.

I also feel that if a moderator initiates these personal attacks that are off the subject of the thread that they should be considered for loss of status as a moderator. A moderator is one that takes care of issues and not starts them.

This forum has a lot to offer all levels of users. But it is getting tainted by attitudes between users. Of course I do not claim to be perfect either. But I understand that making a comment (outside of chit chat) that is degrading of a persons abilities or the person itself can and does effect change on their ability to make income from customers that visit this forum. And this is very unfair business practice as well, especially from those who would benefit from the business that is gained due to their remarks about and related business loss from another.

Debating is one thing, personal and thread unrelated attacks are not. This needs to stop!



Thanks!