I am baffled at the strange outburst of fights between members, and I'm getting lots of Private Messages from people complaining about each other.
Let me just say -- stop it.
I'm not interested in your private wars between each other, and anyone who communicates back and forth with other members complaining about some other member(s) is being very childish, and maybe you just need to take a break.
Also, anyone who doesn't like when someone posts a lot of messages -- tough luck. If someone stays within the rules, then you're either going to have to live with it, or leave.
I'm not interested in complaints about how much one person posts, or a particular system that someone hates, or even that you don't like me.
If you don't like a particular member, I have provided built-in ways to block people.
If you're too cheap to upgrade your membership to use the advanced blocking features, then you'll just have to live with looking at that member's posts.
I don't want a few complainers to poison the well for all the other (majority) of people who find a way to live in harmony with the other 30,000 members. Again, please leave if you can't cope with people with different opinions from you.
I personally LOVE the diversity of ideas and people here, and I encourage people to explore lots of different ideas and methods.
You know what else? Within the next month or so I'm going to start developing some new features, like the Vtracs page, advanced predictions posting tools, favorites bookmarking, continued improvements on search, and a variety of other things. Sadly, there will be some people who will pick out one or two of those new features and come to the conclusion that I support some other "faction" of members more than them. Then, they'll go complaining to their cohorts about "see how Todd supported 'thus and such' by doing that?" And then more stirring the pot, and so on.
I consider that kind of behavior POISION to the forums, and lately I have been taking the attitude that I will remove any poison from the forums quickly, no matter who or what it is. Ask Dman.
If you have personally been complaining to people a lot, just please stop, and instead of always looking on the negative side of life, try seeing other people's perspectives and enjoy the diversity.