[Hammer]

I agree, Gonzo. The thing is that usually when a thread gets interesting and people start debating both sides of the issue someone starts shouting 'stop the pissing' and the thread gets closed. I don't care for the boards where anything goes, but as long as no personal attacks are made, I don't see anything wrong with heated discussions.

One thing I've noticed is that 5 or 6 people can sit around a table at Internext and have the same exact type of discussion that we're having here, but since you can hear nuances in the voices and detect smirks and smiles when things are said, that same exact conversation is nothing more than that, a conversation. Take that same conversation and put in in print on a board and suddenly people start reading between the lines and hearing things that weren't intended the way they are interpretting them.

For example, Gonzo and I are good friends, but if anyone didn't know that and I replied to him in a post with "Oh shut up you fat fucking nobody", those people would go ballistic and fire off PMs to the mods to get me banned.