[Joe]

Well as you all have seen that the Pro/Forums of late (ever since the epically average Apogee crap storm started) have evolved into a nasty place. There is just lots of mud slinging, name calling, banter, and other completely un productive things going on. These have been going on by some of the most veteran names in this field.

Derek and myself don’t take ProCooling so seriously that we need to moderate posts, or control what people say. We figure your all mature folks because if you weren’t, you prolly wouldn’t be here. So we try to keep the spam out and let people sort shit out for themselves. That’s worked pretty much for the last 6 years this sites been online.

The people involved with this realized what was going on, and sometimes even realized how much they were hurting ProCooling and the forums by doing it. But that didn’t stop anything. Currently the forums live in a state where everyone is just waiting for the next flame war, or next battle of the titans. I have been passively and sometimes aggressively pushing for this stuff to stop, or at least return to a level where a normal adult could follow along.

That also has been unsuccessful. In turn we have lost many very good posters, many people who made the pro/forums what it was/is all over these petty pride/ego battles. Today that ends.

One of the parties involved have promised never to return in reply to me essentially saying "stop the shit or leave". The reason for the not wanting to ever come back is because there is so much bad blood now the internet is not big enough for the 2 of them it seems... How juvenile is that? I wasn’t expecting such a childish reply. But then again maybe I should have. The other party involved with the events of late has vowed to step back and not fight this anymore with the thought of also walking away if this continues. While it sounds noble, both are equally at fault and both were equal instigators in all this.

I don’t have the energy to tell grown men who are older than me how to act in a public setting. that’s not what we are here to do. But if it requires me to do drastic changes and start banning people for the sake of the community, then that’s what will happen.

This is a long winded post, but many of you have seen and been impacted by all this, and I thought you would like an explanation as to what we are seeing and doing about it.

To lower the chances of a flame war breaking out BillA's blog is going to be condensed into the cooling information area of the forum.