thanks tongue emoticon I had my phase of taking discussions in
  forums with deadly seriousness... back in 1989/1990 Usenet and
  mailing lists.

  Then I started creating/running large listserv mailing lists on
  various topics and discovered what's required in managing
  thousands of people, some of whom get quite hot under the collar
  and trigger happy.

  I started learning 25 years ago at the age of 18 about ALL the
  different personality types online, and how they interact with
  each other and how to manage people who are highly intelligent
  but occasionally get unreasonable and lose civility.

  Most I could get to listen to reason. I *did* have to kick two
  out, encouraging them to start their OWN mailing list to conform
  to the standards they felt I wasn't holding up to.

  They did, became successful, started a social movement in the
  process. "Taking Children Seriously" founded by quantum
  computing pro David Deutsche and Sarah Fitzgerald is a parenting
  movement they started together, all because I got tired of their
  high-brow academic talk when one of my rules was, "speak plainly
  whenever possible".

  I was just a kid. But at 43 years old now and lots of practice,
  niceness online is just habit now smile emoticon

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