There are those on ScubaBoard who chronically use attacktics to make their point (there's that punishment again) ... and my personal feeling is that those people tend to drive some folks off the board ... often resulting in us losing valuable contributors while the people we should be losing are allowed to continue posting in a way that puts others off. That's the issue I tried bringing up in our correspondence ... that the attacktics people needed to be put on a shorter leash because they're driving real contributors out of the house.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Couldn't agree with this more Bob, as a new member I can relate to your comment about the attacks driving folks away. For me I kept running across SB threads in Google search results, so I started to lurk a bit and was pleasantly surprised by the amount of truly excellent content available. So I became a more active lurker and eventually to participate in a thread here and there. A very FEW responses in some of the first threads I participated in almost made me blow off SB completely. But then I just decided that I'd ignore the folks that are just here to pontificate by pulling things out of context to help drive their agenda, and focus purely on the information I find valuable and entertaining.
As a part-time instructor, I find I that I continue to learn as much from SB as I do from my offline prep for various classes. So I agree with the call for action to help drive a positive vibe and will do my part to help with that. I'm also very thankful to NetDoc and the mods/advisers for keeping this thing running.
A big fan,
-Erin