Dormouse, IMO IAP is poles apart now with regard to personal insults and flaming to what is used to be. I don't agree with when you imply it is same old same old. The odd insult now is minute and rare compared to the wild west that IAP used to be.
Yes, I agree with this. My rhetoric was a measure of my frustration at two decent and interesting discussions 'going south'. I'm all too familiar with that phenomena (particularly at this forum in the past) and thus I have a 'hair-trigger' response right now at this forum, half expecting some wave of toxic posters to popup and encourage me shutup.
IMO you shouldn't take these things personally.
I most certainly don't. I consider them an attempt to end the discussion and treat them accordingly.
If you think they are out of order or they are annoying you, just ignore them. The majority of hard line flamers are no longer here so you shouldn't really have any problem.
Fear not for me being 'thin-skinned' or 'touchy'. I'm most certainly am not. I've got well over 40,000 discussion forum posts since 2000 (scattered across a dozen forums) so I'm no wallflower or unfamiliar with such forum issues. I'm just rather picky about where I bother to post. Too much static and I don't bother. I just retreat back to post at a couple of private forums only and give up with 'public' forums. That's just the way I am. If the 'public' forum environment is civil and condusive to interesting and intelligent discussions, I'm there. If not, I'm gone to where it is.
BTW, Wigs jokes a lot and brings humour to the forum, so if he jokes about something, he is not condascending you
Duly noted. I'm unfamiliar with who some of these 'new' people here (including yourself and 'bringbackwigs'). Other mods/admins I recognize from long past days (though usually as posters).
