peewhy - 8:56 am on Jun 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

Brett and mods do an excellent and often thankless job. They receive floods upon floods of posts and probably are required to take instant decisions at first glance and take action based on that first impression.

On the other side of the coin, members old and new see WW has the font of all knowledge. Sometimes, members are stressed and in panic-mode, whizz off a post without aforethought ... and want instant answers!

It is then that the two factions clash, had Google not been going through whatever it was going through, the mods would be under less pressure, the member probably wouldn't be in panic mode ... life would be perfect!

This forum is one of good quality and those that flit from one to another would certainly distinguish that, but perhaps some don't alter their style of posting and the result could be aggressive, flippant, light hearted, confrontational, jokey, self promotional etc, etc.

I agree, we should think twice before banging that submit button and think of the recipient too.