Rinaldo is a newbie who is here in part because he has been a problem at other boards. I haven't chased down the other post, but it does disturb me that there has been an increase in ad hominem attacks and some real surliness in some comments that are not technically ad hominem. We have removed another poster from the board, forced another to take a break, and warned several others, but it does seem to me that we all should be trying harder to keep our tone more civil. I am actually a little more understanding about the wounded poets howling, but there is no reason to take a bad poem as a personal affront unless it is specifically written about you. You can always just ignore it, but if you are going to respond, critique the poem not the poet, and don't say anything you wouldn't say in an actual group setting. Anyway, Bob, that was my longwinded way of saying you're right. We hear howls about free speech when we edit or remove offensive posts, and we try to keep that kind of thing to a minimum, but quite frankly I don't think we will thrive if people keep abusing the anonymity of the Internet.
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