I think you're on to something.  A forum full of vanilla can't go the distance.  If you consider facebook forumesque it'd be a good example.  Since you may choose your friends (members), the choice is yours.  If you don't like what they have to say you wouldn't have accepted them in the first place.  I can bear any differences with my facebook friends.  As long as they don't mention God or Republican bullshit.  In that case they're outa there.  Fitting though isn't it .. politics and religion.

The day a forum starts banning folks for their personality, opinions, attitudes, is the day the forum's failing starts.  

AJF had it's fair share of Baskin and Robbin's vanilla-only-flavor members.  But it didn't start that way.  The constant "improvements" took their toll.  Remove the pub?  That's where the disagreements were.  That's where the rubber met the road, the grit, alternate flavors.  The forum might as well had gone Christian.

Forum people too often see the devil's advocate as trolling; bending the laser beam of like kinds.

<wronghole>:  What's an <wronghole>?  Someone who speaks their mind.

Men who have never served in the military missed two important features of life; to eat your ego and do what you're told for the ultimate survival of all, to live in a hooch (military housing) as one of 40 people born and raised in places you never knew existed, guys who had never seen an escalator or a blind-assisted crosswalk.

My personal goal at this stage of life is to be 180 degrees from Donald Trump.  

 

Po3try.