You know, my Stratus board ran into this problem a lot - when you end up with so many people (and frankly a lot of those guys were a-holes) you get a LOT of arguments. They finally just put disclaimers at the top of the "Whatever Forum" as we called it, saying "Enter at your own risk - if you don't like it, don't read it, and don't cry to the moderators about it. You've been warned."
I think we hold the members here to a higher level of professionalism, which I APPRECIATE. However, as it often became a topic of argument on the Stratus board, "freedom of speech" is indeed one of our rights. Phrases such as, "I may not agree with what you say but I'll defend your right to say it" became commonplace. Even I've learned to just click the top-right 'X' button before getting myself all fired up over what someone else wrote.
So in closing, I think whereas we can expect our members to act appropriately and AVOID arguable topics, there is also an appropriate way to RESPOND or REACT to those topics - it's a double-edged sword.
I also say it's a car club, not a political club or a racial club or a gay marriage club or a stem-cell research/gun-control/animal rights club... So my next post will probably be about Vipers - the car, not the species.
Jeff
