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I just think it's unfortunate that people demonize you if you have the audacity to disagree with them.

I hope nothing I've said has made you feel demonized. I LIKE multiple opinions on diverse topics, as long as everybody gets to express their opinion.

My part in this discussion is mainly to advocate minimal rules and maximum liberty.

I don't think anybody needs to worry about the forum becoming a church. In sociological terms, whats happening here is FORMING STORMING NORMING and PERFORMING.

All groups go through periodic re-evaluation of group consensus about how the group should interact. Once this discussion dies down it will be BIAB business as usual.

We all agree that the forum is about PGMusic products in specific, and about music in general. I don't see that changing.

And although there have been a few comments made that were indeed attacks on a person more than discussions of an idea, I still think threads like this (on an occasional basis, not as a steady diet) serve as pressure release valves, resulting in a more cohesive group.

Everybody who had a point made it. In the end, nobody was forced to shut up. Nobody's points were universally accepted or universally demonized. I dare say we are all as friendly or as unfriendly as we were before the discussion.

There were even a few really funny observations made, and I think that is the key to making a forum work. Laugh a lot. Fight never. Discuss when necessary.

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