Seems I need to spell this out. Andrew my reference to "Dark" (add your suffix here) ended with a
which means "Tongue in Cheek" and no doubt I will have to do my pennence to please the the high priests of cosmology when they finally get some sort relevent answer and I fully accept that. My beef is simply the treatment of other IIS users I have wittnessed on the science board. It is totally unacceptable, unwarranted and has driven many people away from wanting to participate in discussion (I am not pulling this out of my RS, I have many friends on this forum who have vocalised that very point). If you desire to make it even more cold and prickly there will be even less participation and that is how I see the impact of suggestions made to change the title. This is an amature forum with a very large membership from all walks of life and if it is to stay true to its goals we need to be more tolerent towards others and treat them with respect at all times. If you want to add to the title " replies to posts that are aggressive, degrading, demeaning, derogatory or simply belittling will end in the offending poster being banned" then I am all for it. This idea that serious scientific debate has to be carried out in such a way that your adversary if left to crawl away licking their bloody wounds does not encourage people, it makes them run away and that is a huge loss if science is to achieve its real purpose.
Mark