Jim... gossip is NOT okay. Don't matter any of that. Fact is, why bother anyway? Only shit can ensue so one should not gossip.

I am taken back to what happened here a while back. Mudchat essentially died because of gossip and related shitstorms caused by gossip. It got so crazy that myself and others started copying the chat sessions to ensure there was a written record of what was going on as Mudchat cannot be "read back"... ya gotta be there or you can't read what is or what was said. The only reason the "gossip" (read "inane bullshit and bullying") stopped is that Max said on a thread regarding the problem that he could "read back" all of what was posted. The bullying and gossip and CRAP stopped immediately and so has Mudchat for all I know.

Gossip is equal to bullying from the bushes... sniping... gutter-sniping.