Hellboy,

Thank you for your intelligent & enlightening insights.

In addition to emails & telephone chats, I've also had the pleasure of meeting Nigel in person (Synthzone Jam San Jose,CA) and can confirm that he's everything you said: intelligent, thoughtful, and insightful, and real easy going nice guy (typical aussie) I also appreciate everything he's done for us with the General Arranger Forum, but it's OBVIOUS that his career & life contraints just don't allow the time required to keep some people here in line, especially because many of the fights are allowed to escalate for too long before Nigel finally has a chance to catch them.

I realize it's a time consuming job, but if Nigel doesn't have the time (or interest) to more closely monitor this forum, then I suggest it's time for him to appoint a 'neutral moderator(s)" (not me of course) to take on/share in this task.

Yes, we could (yet again) plead for people to simply behave and act civil, but that has 'never worked' for very long, always with the same few people back to misbehave again, sometimes merely a few days, or week or two later. It's obvious (at least to me) that strict enforcement of the rules already in place is needed, and of which needs to include, after initial warning, permanently banning repeat offenders, similar to what was outlined in the rules enforcement Tony Rome uses on his "Cozemel" internet forum.

In a true Utopian World, strict rule enforcement wouldn't be necessary, but it's time to "wake up" to the real world of PUBLIC forums, where just about anyone (with a verifible email address) can join & post on Synthzone.

I realize that "it's Nigel's gig" afterall (as Diki so well pointed out), and will accept whatever he decides to do, but that said, my future participation here will also be based in part on how future offending Synthzone member are dealt with.

Respectfully,

Scott