"For individuals that regularly haunt locales like the Chicken Coop to be speaking of "self-moderation as a virtue" strikes me as quite funny." I haven't regularly "haunted" the Coop for some time, and the time that I did was about 3 months total. The Coop is a place where netiquitte is not exactly expected, as is made clear at the site. Your defensive attempt to make this personal is unfortunate, a needless example of IKYABWAI 'net rhetoric, which per usual, fails to offer an effective counterpoint to my real point, which besides being impersonal, was merely that a bit more self-control on the part of some forum users would be a good thing. The comment wasn't intended as an invitation to go off on some "but what about you!..." tangent. More bluntly, I'm neither a perfect example of what I advocate, but neither am I a hypocrite. Enough about me. In the software forums of Renderosity, it can be a real drag when people decide that a topic is "stupid" and set out to derail it with, for example, repeated comments about squeaky hamster wheels and multiple references to popcorn while those who find value in the topic do their best to keep on it. The better response would be to post once to voice objection, or better yet, to move on and find a thread of value. If you really must try to turn well-intended and impersonal suggestions and opinions into some sort of opportuntiy for voicing personal defenses or resentments, I'd invite you to do so at the Coop or even Ironbear's forum at xfx-3d where you'd have the freedom to do so without consideration of propriety, or for that matter, coherent argument. Otherwise, please accept that if I irritated a raw nerve, it wasn't intentional. ;-)