I think the title of the post says it all, "To All Members." It doesn't say, "To All Posters."
As American Express likes to say, membership has its privleges, but it also has responsibilities for appropriate conduct and decorum. I still stop by other boards regularly but rarely post anymore. The responses aren't as knowledgable and respectful as they are here. They are often ill-informed but more importantly they can be condescending, rude, or worse on those boards.
I've had several instances here where after much heated debate in a thread, a fellow poster and I started to get a little rough with each other. In every case we took it off the board and discussed our conduct in personal messages, often trading apologies, and left the discussion with a good ending - even if we still disagreed. That level of class and tolerance just doesn't exist anywhere else. This board is one-of-a-kind, and it is the Members of it (with the help of an appropriate level of moderation from those running the Board) that make it so.
As American Express likes to say, membership has its privleges, but it also has responsibilities for appropriate conduct and decorum. I still stop by other boards regularly but rarely post anymore. The responses aren't as knowledgable and respectful as they are here. They are often ill-informed but more importantly they can be condescending, rude, or worse on those boards.
I've had several instances here where after much heated debate in a thread, a fellow poster and I started to get a little rough with each other. In every case we took it off the board and discussed our conduct in personal messages, often trading apologies, and left the discussion with a good ending - even if we still disagreed. That level of class and tolerance just doesn't exist anywhere else. This board is one-of-a-kind, and it is the Members of it (with the help of an appropriate level of moderation from those running the Board) that make it so.