Hello Michael,

Don't let the occasional misbehavior keep you from coming here. It's really the best place for FoxPro or Visual FoxPro.

I think that this is just a phase. I think of it of being like when a parent tells its child that he can't use the F word. THe probability is really high that this child will use the F word quite a lot for the next coming month but it will phase out. I think that the same will happen here.

And if it does'nt get better (which I doubt a lot) at least the probability is very high that it will stay in the DISCUSSION section.



>As a newbie here, for a week only, I have some comments & a question. This is not directly aimed at the person I am replying too, but it seemed a good place to comment.
>
>I was recommended this site as being excellent for Fox Pro information. And looking at some of the technical answers given, I don't doubt this. But the first screen I come to gives me rules on acceptable behaviour & I find a lot of this section to do with profanity & abuse. I get the impression that at least just recently, if I said the wrong thing or asked the wrong question, I would get a huge amount of abuse sent to me. I also get the impression that anybody who is American feels that it is their right to be able to be offensive if they feel like it and are opposed to limitations on their ability to be offensive & decide that is the most extreme form of censorship. I haven't been here long enough to determine whether or not the forum is like the impression given by the conversations going on, if it is then it is a very puerile place that I will leave quickly. I am not against bad language/profanity per se, there is just a time & place for evreything, & a professional forum is not
>one of those places. Maybe I'm wrong, but I also get the feeling that the forum is very much a little clique, where everyone knows everyone else & considers it OK to be abusive to each other, it's only when new people like me get involved that it's a problem. Another reason to not stay.
>
>The question is, what language is abuse & profanity acceptable in. I have been able to determine that English is not acceptable. Is it acceptable in French, Spanish, German or any others. May be it is restricted to languages people don't understand. Due to my programming background, I do not need a program to convert from hexadecimal notation to ASCII & I could clearly read all of the messages you spelt out, If I had a problem with bad language, then I would have been offended.
>
>I am not being critical here, more tongue in cheek, but the conversations here do make me very wary of asking any questions.
>
>0x52656761726473
>0x4D696B65