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Personally, I think that if you don't have anything productive to post, that it is better to just sit on your hands and move onto the next message.... There are soooo many to sift through anyway, especially the begging student ones at project time.
There will always be someone who rubs you up the wrong way on-line, just as there is out there in the real world, whether once in a while, or constantly.
Unless the information offered by someone is outright dangerous to humans, or most-likely damaging to attached components, a simple correction and an explanation why is warranted, rather than an outright attack on someone's ideas or suspected mental capacity.
There seems to have been an increase in the amount of attacks lately, along with only a
few good defences. A gyro thread and a bicycle light thread spring to mind as examples of a good defence.
To be quite blunt though, should someone join this forum, or any other forum for that matter, with the anticipation of standing in a corner and being hammered by the bright kids, due to a lack of knowlege? Isn't the lack of knowlege the reason why someone usually joins a forum anyway?
(Or a desire to pass on knowlege to those lacking...)
However, if a member continually breaches forum rules/guidelines, the best option is to simply report the post and let the Mods/Admin decide the appropriate action.
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