You are railing against the wrong people, SRS. I don't care whether or not you believe me when I say I would love this to be a much nicer place. But it's true. You can riposte by saying I'm going about it the wrong way all you like, but the biggest culprits here are anonymity and the ability to post unlogged-in. It's actually very surprising that a website with this much traffic, with those attributes, is as nice as it is. I'm not going to keep banging on about the Gaughan website (it has much less traffic that this one), but you can't post there unless you are logged in, you can't be anonymous (you are allowed a pseudonym on the forums so you won't come up on google), so you can't hide your nastiness behind that. One moderator pounces immediately on any bigotry and shames the culprit. It is not all nicey-nicey by any means and you can say what you like, more or less. And it's more civil than here. If the model isn't working, change the model. The model gets the traffic it deserves. That's the internet for you. Since you posted your long post, two of the nastiest people here have continued to post, one bleating about being badly done to and the other pretending to support you. Believe me, he doesn't. On that other forum that I won't name again, they would both have been told publicly this morning to shut up. Or else.