Reply #167: Not the members but the TOPICS that cause most dissension [View All]

[carolinayellowdog]

Caricatures and straw men abound here lately. The segregation issue as raised by Skinner was with reference to arguments about primary candidates, and having a forum for that topic will draw most of the poison into one place. Why lower our expectations across the board for everyone, when it's the primaries that have increased the levels of poisonous personal attacks to the point that the mods are overwhelmed with complaints? The result would be that personal attacks in other fora would subside to pre-primary levels and the mods and admins won't be so annoyed at the level of complaints. All I'm saying is that the lowering of expectations should be done selectively rather than indiscriminately.