Quoting Taro:

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I'm perfectly willing to give this one more try and do my best to be a productive and active member of this community.

Welcome back, Taro! 

Quoting Taro:

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In light of Kathy's constructive post as well as Maurice putting out a friendly hand 'to the other side' as he puts it, I'm perfectly willing to give this one more try and do my best to be a productive and active member of this community.

I still believe that the forum would benefit not only from having the rules clearly posted, but also moderation policy (e.g.: every user first gets two warnings, after that a 1 day ban and so on). I've noticed that forums who post both tend to have less animosity and no posts second-guessing moderation, since both the rules and the way they are enforced are posted clearly for all to see. This is just a friendly suggestion, nothing more.

So I'm starting with a clean slate and I promise that I will abide not only strictly to the rules but will also exercise restraint and not add fuel to fire (something I wasn't always able to do in the past, for which I'm sorry). I may differ from opinion with other members but will always do so in a respectful way, without adding insults or denigrating remarks. Of course, I will not post any racist remarks as well. Moderators can hold me to that. However, I will add that I expect the same form of respect from all other users. If this is not the case, I will not retaliate but will notify the moderators and expect them to act swiftly and decisively.

I believe this is a fair way to start over again with everyone here.

My pleasure, Taro, very much so.

Cliff no harm done. Just for the record you did fine with initial post, which I answered, and that answer was sincere and honest, please don't try and read more than is there. It may not be the answer you would have given or the one you wanted to hear (read), but it was the answer and there was no malice aimed at Taro, he was simply an example nothing more or nothing less. I welcome Taro back with great pleasure.

Kathy, thanks for your post. You will get a green one later on.

The only reason I stay here is for the help I recieved from a few people here and the lolcats. Other then that I try to stay out of things. I've been looking for other places, but really found none that would beat DVDPro (the product).

Now signing off because I feel  a massive migraine coming up.

I take it the trial ended (did it start?)?

No, I will say that 6 out of the last 7 months have been pretty sweet (or is it 4 out of 5? I don't know. There was a back-to-back vacation that made the forums quite nice. I'll give credit where credit is due  ).

However, until the forum gets more moderators outside of Ken and Gerri, there will still be trolling posts making the attitude decline again because Ken and Gerri can't get to them all. I would assume most of their time is spent on development and contributions.

If there are more moderators than Ken and Gerri than, wow, you guys need different moderators. Or at least moderators that visit the forum more than once every few weeks.