This is likely an issue we've all dealt with or a least faced while being on-line and a member of various boards.

I belong to a number, all music related, and I know that there are members here who have been "attacked", sometimes very strongly for sharing their opinion on a subject. The opinion often included fact and conjecture, but the long-and-short of it was.... somebody verbally attacked them for their opinion.

This type of confrontation was not just from the younger folks but from older folks [who no doubt feel secure behind the nets baseline anonymity] who should know better, and was thoroughly unjustified. We've seen it here to a lesser degree.

I have seen some very open honest folks, who've devoted time and effort to a board, DRIVEN FROM IT by others who really couldn't care less about the subject or content in question. Their satisfaciton must come from the personal confrontations and stirring it up, I guess.

My perspective is that opinions are like a**holes.... Everybodys got one !! And because of that, I tend to ignore the antagonist. There are those who just won't let something drop seem to delight in the aggressive response.

To them I simply refuse to reply.... after all, you may seeth quietly at home, but if there's no response to their tirade, who they gonna correspond with ? Themselves ? I have to imagine that no response has just got to be tearing them up !! LOL

My $0.02
Regards,
Steve