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**heennaRaf** · 05-04-2007, 09:25 AM

I can't be bothered to search. I think even if there aren't, the ones who are "deserving" as you deem are jumped on too quickly for my taste, and I'm not alone in this opinion. I've had a number of PMs, rep comments and posts in various threads that are telling me the general opinion is that this kind of stuff has gotten out of hand. There's a half-dozen guys who go out of their way to give a hard time to anyone they get even a slight whiff of crazy from. This is making a lot of the other KW people uncomfortable, and I'll wager it is scaring off plenty of lurkers who would like to ask a question but won't for fear of getting pilloried. So I posted the general warning, and hope that things get turned down a notch or three.

Please don't misunderstand - I'm not questioning the need to ratchet some of this back, but there also seems to be a myth growing that the innocents who are genuinely trying to get get help are getting smashed as sport - and I don't see that happening. I don't expect research, I'm just saying that my impression is that honest and sober questions get answered and that people who are genuine in their presentation get treated with appropriate respect.

I'd also like to say (again) that a LOT of excess in both camps would be eliminated if KW would require real name registration.

05-04-2007, 09:25 AM	#28
heennaRaf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 504 Senior Member	I can't be bothered to search. I think even if there aren't, the ones who are "deserving" as you deem are jumped on too quickly for my taste, and I'm not alone in this opinion. I've had a number of PMs, rep comments and posts in various threads that are telling me the general opinion is that this kind of stuff has gotten out of hand. There's a half-dozen guys who go out of their way to give a hard time to anyone they get even a slight whiff of crazy from. This is making a lot of the other KW people uncomfortable, and I'll wager it is scaring off plenty of lurkers who would like to ask a question but won't for fear of getting pilloried. So I posted the general warning, and hope that things get turned down a notch or three. Please don't misunderstand - I'm not questioning the need to ratchet some of this back, but there also seems to be a myth growing that the innocents who are genuinely trying to get get help are getting smashed as sport - and I don't see that happening. I don't expect research, I'm just saying that my impression is that honest and sober questions get answered and that people who are genuine in their presentation get treated with appropriate respect. I'd also like to say (again) that a LOT of excess in both camps would be eliminated if KW would require real name registration.
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