boring or not, it is possible to disagree in the strongest terms without getting personal, or using vulgarities or their text substitutes. this site has been consistent over the years as to the basic tone of the forum. in the past it has been wide ranging and has had a liberal policy as to arguments as long as the posters stay within certain fairly wide boundaries. but there are limits, and the members ought to know by now by experience what they are.
there have been very few post deletions in threads in the whole history of the forum, and they all occurred when the posts became vehicles of very personal insults or contained specific info on how to pirate links course files. lw