Guest from venus, please by all means create your highly regulated, restrictive, elitist forusm for only the truly serious. It will only be open to those whom you deem worthy and therefore by it's very nature exclude any who you believe do not measure up to your own individually concieved standard. It must be very comforting for you to be so certain that you know so much that you know in advance who and where a useful piece of information or a learning opportunity may come from. And of course if it was not pre-determined by you, nothing would have any value.
Bitter - only when people try to throw out the baby with the bathwater. It is the diverse nature of the posters that makes this forum. We all have something to share. I admit I'm a relative newcomer, about a year, and I have oodles of stuff to learn, but don't discount me or anyone else cos I enjoy the bs threads as well as using the dt & the music threads. I may not post to the music threads that often but please don't assume I don't read them, or learn from them, and please don't assume that I or anyone else has nothing to contribute.
A few months ago, someone put up the two out of three rule, for should I say it
Is it kind?
Is it true?
Is it neccessary?
Whilst I'd rather not tell you what to do, what I would suggest that if you feel that strongly that there is a need for a different kind of forum, instead of complaining that this isn't meeting your needs, why don't you go ahead and start it. It may or may not work but at least you'll have had a go and that in itself may relieve some of the frustration that things aren't going according to how you think they should. Jude