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While I don't think I actually favored a no comment section I didn't find it a lack of one to be especially constraining. Your post brought out some pretty key points about being a forum that preaches to the choir situation which obviously isn't good for anyone. However it's easy to just say to people "look there are people with views that don't match yours but that doesn't make them wrong so suck it up or leave," There are two things that get in the way , one; most of us have very fragile egos and two; most of us want to be heard and soon the site in question descends into bitter vitriol to the point that the original post is long forgotten and people are too busy coming up with ways to degenerate their fellow posters. I would have to imagine that's pretty disappointing to the author, imagine how you would feel if you came up with a paradigm changing concept and people were too busy throwing s*** around to consider your post. In that context I don't blame pop- sci for taking that action. So the answer would be to have a more hands on moderated forum, but probably some sites and/or authors have the time , personal or inclination to do so. Who wants to be in charge of a bunch of kindergartners? I'm sure all the current and past moderators in this forum have plenty of other things to do then to keep us in check, but at the same time I think here, for the most part, the members keep ourselves in check so they don't have to bring out the wooden paddles that often. in that they, and by extension, US members are quite lucky too have this forum. It seems other forums don't have that luxury.

<blockquote data-quote="Wade" data-source="post: 171300" data-attributes="member: 4766"><p>While I don&#039;t think I actually favored a no comment section I didn&#039;t find it a lack of one to be especially constraining. Your post brought out some pretty key points about being a forum that preaches to the choir situation which obviously isn&#039;t good for anyone. However&nbsp; it&#039;s easy to just say to people &quot;look there are people with views that don&#039;t match yours but that doesn&#039;t make them wrong so suck it up or leave,&quot; There are two things that get in the way , one; most of us have very fragile egos and two; most of us want to be heard and soon the site in question descends into bitter vitriol to the point that the original post is long forgotten and people are too busy coming up with ways to degenerate their fellow posters. I would have to imagine that&#039;s pretty disappointing to the author, imagine how you would feel if you came up with a paradigm changing concept and people were too busy throwing s*** around to consider your post. In that context I don&#039;t blame pop- sci for taking that action. So the answer would be to have a more hands on moderated forum, but probably some sites and/or authors have the time , personal or inclination to do so. Who wants to be in charge of a bunch of kindergartners?&nbsp; I&#039;m sure all the current and past moderators in this forum have plenty of other things to do then to keep us in check, but at the same time I think here,&nbsp; for the most part,&nbsp; the members keep ourselves in check so they don&#039;t have to bring out the wooden paddles that often.&nbsp; in that they,&nbsp; and by extension, US members are quite lucky too have this forum. It seems other forums don&#039;t have that luxury.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Wade, post: 171300, member: 4766"] While I don't think I actually favored a no comment section I didn't find it a lack of one to be especially constraining. Your post brought out some pretty key points about being a forum that preaches to the choir situation which obviously isn't good for anyone. However it's easy to just say to people "look there are people with views that don't match yours but that doesn't make them wrong so suck it up or leave," There are two things that get in the way , one; most of us have very fragile egos and two; most of us want to be heard and soon the site in question descends into bitter vitriol to the point that the original post is long forgotten and people are too busy coming up with ways to degenerate their fellow posters. I would have to imagine that's pretty disappointing to the author, imagine how you would feel if you came up with a paradigm changing concept and people were too busy throwing s*** around to consider your post. In that context I don't blame pop- sci for taking that action. So the answer would be to have a more hands on moderated forum, but probably some sites and/or authors have the time , personal or inclination to do so. Who wants to be in charge of a bunch of kindergartners? I'm sure all the current and past moderators in this forum have plenty of other things to do then to keep us in check, but at the same time I think here, for the most part, the members keep ourselves in check so they don't have to bring out the wooden paddles that often. in that they, and by extension, US members are quite lucky too have this forum. It seems other forums don't have that luxury. [/QUOTE]

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