Mike,
>>I don't find the UT any more or less adversarial than the other online FoxPro communities I have frequented in the past 12 years. There have always been flame wars and flamers. (Fabian Pascal, anyone?)
Pascal got frustrated when we could not keep up with his furious genius as he tried to explain complex technical ideas- "furious" being the operative word! I don't see much similarity to the bovver boy behavior we see today.
I'm perfectly happy for people to say anything they choose. However, that freedom is balanced by a responsibility called "sensitivity". Nobody would regard it as a freedom of speech issue if a Christian missionary decided to loudly proclaim the good news in a Mosque. Nor is it necessary for self-proclaimed dotNET converts to come to the VFP forum every day with provocative taunts. That's not freedom of speech, that's just antisocial. IMHO. So if they do it, I hope people add a TROLL ALERT post so we can ensure that no more of our technical contributors are lost to us.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
