Yesterday I was going to add a comment to a thread in the Blender forum. I was almost ready to press the save and post button when I stopped wondering... nah! it's going to be the start of a flame war (because the it was a negative comment towards SketchUp) and after a couple of seconds of meditation I simply closed the window.

Negative comments are taken as personal attacks or, even worse, belittlement of pet techniques and are the start of a quarrel so it is better to stick to the 'Talk is silver, silence is gold' maxim. And silence is the death sentence of a community.

Bye.

P.S.: after being banned by DAZ forums by resident Gestapo troopers I have noticed that I was losing less time by not posting and I have started a generalized go-back-to-lurking campaign. Nowadays I have reduced my contributions to 3/4 comments at most per week in total on all the forums I visit (it was 3/4 comments per day ). My information gathering has not suffered, it is the others who do not get the information I find...

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2