How can you expect a forum board full of smiling, innocent interaction? Can you imagine a gallery full of just smiling, happy, uncontroversial same old, same old postings or merchants selling only smiling morphs and happy textures?

I'm not expecting everything to be smiley face and polka dot rainbows, no. But you have to admit, when thread after thread contains complaints and bashing it gets really old, really fast.

The intent of the foums is for learning and exchanging of ideas. It used to be that way, for the most part. But something has changed and it has gotten far away from that purpose. At times, it seems there are more posts that gripe about something than focus on something positive. A current case in point ... with the release of Poser 6, there have been a lot of questions, along with positive and negative reviews. Someone complained about the number of Poser 6 posts. Expecting flames, she complained when she got them, and then the post was locked. The post was started with a negative burst, it should have been squelched right away. It is that type of interaction that I am talking about here.

Message edited on: 04/09/2005 14:02