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Originally Posted by joseph_lubnan  Here are few suggestions, that may help:
1. Control bullying in the forum. It discourages many readers and members from contributing, when they see bullying unchecked by the moderator team, because bullying doesn't always explicitly break forum rules.
2. Do not tolerate character assassination posts, and personal attacks posts.
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I agree with Joseph 100% on these two points. In fact, I am highly discouraged from posting, because in many times it ends up in one of two things:
1- either I am accused of being LF, blood eater or something of the sort, although I would be discussing a point.
2- or I get accused of having a mission to discredit FPM. Once a forumer replied to me by digging my first ever post to "prove" that I am someone with a mission to discredit FPM, although if he had really looked at my posts he would've known that I am closer to FPM than any other party. Starting from a nice discussion I ended up wasting my energy to defend my person.This discouraged me to pursue any discussion for a couple of weeks at that time.
I am not saying ALL forumers behave as such, on the contrary, I've had many fruitful and interesting discussions. But it takes one character assassination post to deviate the topic and end up discouraging the poster.
Knowing that I am an independent, closer to FPM than to LF, but I have some critics (in some posts), which usually end up with me trying to defend myself and my person.
I think the administration should delete and be very strict with character assassination posts and personal attacks. It should not be tolerated from anyone. If a moderator does it (I am not saying they do, I salute the moderators for their nice posts), he should be stripped of his moderation.
Please, do not tolerate any personal attacks or character assassination posts. When you do that, many people, like me will be more encouraged to post and discuss.