I have to say that i have noticed the increase in rants and agro on the HUBB myself (including the personal attacks).. AND I know that I have had at least one rant to my name.. and for that I am saying SORRY TO ALL ON THE HUBB for bringing any ill will to this place..

The rants IMHO are the lessor evil though.. (everyone deserves to blow off steam once and a while).. it is the personal attacks that I feel need to stop. There is no reason for this at all. I have even read a few attacks on new people asking broad questions, and feeling lost amongst the mass of information, (okay maybe the information is available in other places, but this is no reason to attack). This attitude almost made me leave the HUBB. I would like to point out that one of the new members that was attacked responded to the post and has not been seen since! I have spoken to them and they now reluctant to ask anything else.

In general this place is great and a safe haven, as someone said 99% of the people are nice and helpful. We are all human and can get excited when there is topic close to our hearts or hits a nerve. I don’t think debates should stop, every story has 3 sides (his, hers, and the truth) however the language (words) we use are very important, it is all to easy to use emotive words with out realising it and thus not portray what you meant to say. In text it is extremely hard to hear tone of voice (so it is easy to write something that sounds okay to the writer but a reader will "hear" something else) emoticons simply don’t help.

A simular thing happened last year and resulted in a group of members having to have their posts checked by the moderators before they were allowed to go on the HUBB, this is not what anyone wants. So lets stick to the Golden Rule.. If you don’t have anything nice to say… don’t say anything at all!!

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