…the Macondo blowout. Then somebody put up a Facebook group that covered the the same topics. Questions are asked, questions answered, exchanges vanish. No topic organization, no search, no posterity. Killed the other forum dead. Please don’t let that happen here.
As far as the two characters are involved, as someone who has been a moderator I think you have to have limited patience with those who persist in off-topic axe grinding and personal attacks. Otherwise the signal to noise ratio drops to the point where the people you want to attend drop out. I remember one guy we had to throw off a specialist forum for the usual lapses. He was a true expert in the field but (as I noted from checking logs) just about every time he posted after the cocktail hour he’d go off on some tear or another and finally it became too much.
Cheers,
Earl
those who persist in off-topic axe grinding and personal attacks. Otherwise the signal to noise ratio drops to the point where the people you want to attend drop out
This why the “just don’t read the posts” etc doesn’t work.