If you're asking about rules in regard to religious or political messages, they have to handle those with an iron fist, because it's those off-topic arguments that can harm the site. But in "The Den" (or whatever the latest incarnation is), "off topic" conversations are expected. That is the purpose. But there was nothing in the conversation that prompted this message that was anything but what I would consider a normal political debate. >> But members complaining about competitors is just business, what we might call "healthy competition". I'm talking about something more than "healthy competition." Prime example ... when someone calls a newly-released model "that hooker err girl, it's like she shows up where ever there is a dollar for her g-string." Whether a person likes the model or not is not the issue. A lot of hard work went behind it. A comment like that is just as disrespectful to everyone who worked on it as it is to slam someone's character directly. I don't see that as being healthy competition, I see it as being just plain rude.