"I totally agree with the person above who suggested an entirely open/free OT forum. No moderators. Let it go. No one is forced to enter it." You'll still have locked threads in every other forum. Pissing matches start everywhere; in a restaurant, a bar, a football game, at a traffic light, at home, in a staff meeting. It's human nature, especially if you might be a 15 year-old hormonal Poser artist. As far as rehashing old sensitive topics goes, we must remember that many members never - or rarely - visit the forums; this one or application specific, and may not be aware that the topic was previously discussed two pages down. There are also members here who obviously use Renderosity for the forums alone, never posting art, but simply use the forums as a place to hang out to chit-chat...like an AOL chat room, God forbid. Things won't change. It's been this way since one tribe first stumbled upon another nearly six million years ago and beat the s$!t out of them with stones and clubs to gain more real estate and women, and it continues to this day with a psychotic, dry-drunk gimp invading Iraq with the excuse as seeing said tribe as a perceived threat to his own tribe. -Perceived Threat- That's how some posts are viewed, and the ensuing pre-emptive strike by either the follow-up member or the moderator takes place. It's just another day in the life of humanity. Disclaimers: To the religious, it's fine by me if you believe mankind is only 6,000 years old. To the neo-Cons, you voted for him, I didn't. The above comparisons are merely used for contents sake and do not necessarily reflect the views and/or beliefs of Renderosity or its parent company, Bondware, Inc. Do NOT view this post as a perceived threat :)