It´s a big loss for the forum community that chuckebaby, Danny and
Craig cut their participation .
One question  arrises to me which could be a help to prevent 
personal attacks :
Does anybudy ever have unleached the - report abuse - button ?
This could eventually be a way to ban sucker.

Could somebody PLEASE kill this useless thread. It's lowering the tone considerably and seems to be accomplishing nothing.

telecharge
I understand this is a social club for some here and anything short of praise is upsetting the apple cart, but can't you just ignore the thread? Besides, it's not the haters who keep bumping it. Maybe the cheerleaders need to huddle up via PM.

Perhaps when you've been here a little longer you will get a better feel for the forum. Its not a social club its a community of users trying to help each other. When a user finds a bug we are grateful for alerting us about it. Many of us try to reproduce it so there is a confirmation about it. It may show up on some systems and not on others. The more information we provide the better it is for CW in tracking it down and fixing it. In the meantime others try to find workarounds so members can still use the software. 
 
What this forum is not about is attacking one another. We try to follow the CoC (Code of Conduct). Hosts try to give posters as much leeway as possible so that members don't feel too constrained. We count on the better nature of most people to post things that are not meant to abuse other members.
 
When posters go off topic in any thread it usually ends in someone misunderstanding or trying to find hidden meaning in posts. Often trying to find the worst motives in others. it would help greatly if instead doing that posters that suspect a problem with a poster or post contact a host or submit  a ticket about it. let the host look at it and then they will get back with the reporter and confirm or not the suspicion of the reporter.
 
The idea is don't post anything that can be construed as an attack on another member. If a member is a problem take it up with a host of your choice. Don't comment to that poster directly or in the thread.
 
Again this is and always has been a peer to peer forum. We are here to offer help to one another. Its the best place to learn Sonar and the best place to find a solution for a problem with Sonar. We really don't do well in other areas.      

rlared

ralf
Now I wonder, where did the "negativity" in this thread started? Sorry to say, but the OP already had this not too subtle negativity of "why don't you always behave like this?", implying that forumites in too many cases don't act right. Then, one should not complain if it is pointed out, that even if forumites "behave like this", the result is nonetheless often different than in the given example. (Of course, I don't deny that at least some forumites really behave in a questionable way, more or less often. But this is obviously not the only reason for being heard or not.)
 

I don't understand what you're trying to say here.  But if it's suggesting that it's somehow Craig's fault that the thread went negative, I totally disagree.

All I wanted to say is that it's always the other "who starts with negativity". It depends much on your own point of view what you consider "negative". And in this particular thread, I can't get rid of the feeling that the main negativity was started by those calling others negative.