I think the forum is ok. At the moment there are not too much members, but I'm sure more will come in time. And even though there aren't many members in here, the ones that visit this place post quite frequently.

As hehehhehe stated, the forum could use a little lightening up. I even tried to start a new thread about good things to get a bit of positivity in here, but it didn't work that well.

Hehehhehe also mentnioned the narrowness of the topics here. That's partly true, but the fact also is that so many of the current topics in the world revolve around the USA. Even if you don't live in the USA most major news concern the nation and are widely discussed in the local media. So I think this forum kind of reflects what's happening in the world.

I also agree that it would be nice to get some more variety in the topics, so hehehhehe or anyone else, you are very welcomed to start a thread about something else than the US or Bush.

I don't think there's SO much flaming going on in here than is said here. A little of course (flaming, even a little, is of course not good), but in general I think the discussion's been pretty clean considering the topics of this forum.

As I said, please create a new thread about any issue you'd like to see discussed so it wouldn't always be the same boring things.

And since you talked about antagonism, flaming and the overall negativity in here, your innuendos about unnamed members being boring, flaming others or not answering any questions don't help much. If you want to bad mouth a member, then please address him so he can reply.

But overall I'd say this forum is good and needed. I believe more members and thus more variety will eventually emerge. So if we just keep the discussion going, this forum will become as good as the one of SR.

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