Thanks Cgiles for the post,

I think the same thing was going through a lot of peoples minds but no one said it.

I believe what happened here was not a result of people saying their real opinion but rather quite the opposite.

Everyone is afraid to say something negative, but in fact FEELS or THINKS negative towards the performance/person. After a while of hiding behind smiley faces etc, eventually true feelings leek out when they get strong, and that's when it gets ugly.

Much better is to try to FEEL and THINK positive as much as possible, and then to post only HONEST opinions. Sure encouragement is always good, but if there is no honesty, it wontwithstand, and we've seen that.

Rather post a piece of contructive critisism or politely disagree than to fester hatred. If you know someone has made a mistake, explain politely. That's discussion.

As to outright mean comments, they should be dismissed as irrelevant and childish (or mods will help out).

Anyone disagree please?

:-)

Zalman