Originally Posted by Rob B.
I think it’s great when people are supportive and positive — that’s what keeps a forum healthy. But the real test of that is how we respond when someone posts something we don’t agree with. It’s not the topic or the person posting that causes problems, it’s how people react to it. Respectful disagreement keeps things interesting — hostility just shuts everything down.

You return over and over, to a chimerical scenario where you get to discuss anything that you want and all the children remain perfectly behaved, and the atmosphere is productive and wonderful.

I keep repeating over and over, that 99% of the people in the world know that if they are involved in an endeavor with a specified goal such as songwriting, and the conversations are allowed to wander unfettered into politics, religion or whatever may piss some nut-ball off...then the endeavor is going to become governed by the lowest common denominator...and acrimony is inevitable.

In this specific case, a guy who lists Germany as his home in his avatar. comes onto an Indiana based songwriting site with railings against the current United States president, and expects everyone to respond cordially. That is always going to degenerate to the lowest common denominator. To beleive anything else is fantasy.

For future brevity, I will refer to this response as "the chimerical takeaway."
I get tired of writing the same obvious observation over and over again.

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