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XOcrlstln makes such an excellent point. When I was a new member on these boards, I didn't know anything. I was actually very scared to post anything because I was afraid people would lash out at me. Thank god no one did, because I would have left and never come back. So what if someone has only posted a few times? I don't post very often and have been a member for what I consider to be awhile. I don't post unless I really have a desire to, but I am reading threads all the time. I wasn't going to post on this thread until I read XOcrlstln's post and realized how right she is. Now that I have been around, I know what people get mad about certain things and I try to stay away from those threads. If they yell at me and they are a respected member I usually don't get mad because I expected them to have that reaction; I realize where they are coming from. I try and let comments roll off my back. However at the beginning, when I really didn't have a gist for people's personalities on here, I would have been scared off. We need to work on our social skills a little. We need to try and not scare away new members because they probably don't know the system on here, and we could be turning away someone with great potential and someone we really like talking to. In the future, lets remember this so we aren't losing potentially good members. Think of it like you were in a rush party. If someone talked to you that way the minute you stepped in the door, would you want to stick around? Hell no. You'd look elsewhere.
And by saying all this I am not saying there are not people out there looking to proke things, there are, but we should not treat everyone as if that is the case.
Just my 2 cents on this matter.
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