"There are so few tools for community maintenance... if people do not care what others think (and even relish being despised), they can cause an incredible amount of damage to the social fabric." Yep. I wonder if the 'Rosity admins & mods aren't looking through the wrong end of the telescope..... In looking through the locked posts, it's interesting how the same half a dozen or so names keep jumping out - posters whose posts, out of ignorance or malice, seem intended to cause discord. Maybe, instead of a forum-wide effort to police "off-topic" threads, enforcement efforts directed at the trolls as individuals would be more effective.... Just a thought....