Reviewrestaurant - I am smiling at your salulation - full credits for wittiness and half credit for creativity :) I am quite amused by your response. Not the least because I agree with the core of what you are saying. With a few specific exceptions. Allow me to go through those: "with freedom comes responsibility and you can't just jabber what ever you want just because you have a pseudo name and no one will know... Forum like these are to express your self and not just for cheap thrills - There are places for that as well..." Cheap thrill? I question why you would say such a thing but, more importantly, let me say in all honesty that I feel I have carried myself about on this thread just as I would on any of the other threads that I am a part of on Sajha. But there is no intent on my part to get a "cheap thrill" out of this. There were times where I might have sounded harsh, and times when I might have lost my cool, and times when I might have nudged and needled in the spirit of an open forum, but unless I am missing something, I honestly think your characterization of my intent and behaviour is not accurate. "You don't like a place or thing and you voice your opinion - ( Opinion are neither right or wrong) but as a contributor to your opinion one does not have to stoop low and use foul langauages just because you want to because forum like these allow you to do so. Yes there are a lot of people disgusted with OM and the behaviour of the owner - the service was not up to par with what was expected and thus this thread was started... " Agree 100%. I would even go as far as applauding such clear thinking. We might each approach such a situation and its aftermath differently but you are on the mark with those statements. As for threads, if you look around on Sajha, a whole lot of peripheral and tangential issues also get discussed in such threads and this was no exception. "Negatativy brings negativity - but just saying what you want to just does not make sense .. I could argue differently but that would probably need a whole new thread to do it justice. I get the drift of it and can accept it as opinion different from mine. Not right or wrong, but as you pinted out , just different. "..and I think Dimple has the point to stand up for what is right! " No questions there and she sure did a heck of a job - kudos to her. I have already expressed why I had issues with some of what she said and we have exhausted that subject and my feelings about it still remain the same. I actually agreed with quite a bit of what she said but the discussions did not turn out to be about our agreements. They always got steered to what we disagreed on - no suprise there - such is the nature of discussion boards. I admit that at times a bit of it might have been about style rather than substance. And shame on us both for that. I personally think I tired but your guess is as good as mine as to why I might have failed. But I ask you to be fair to me as well. How can you hang someone for trying to inject what he thought was a dose of sanity in a discussion that was getting peppered with nasty personal attacks? " You are a sensible person for what I read thus far.. and given your views rightly and it is enjoyable to read and have a sane discourse... once it gets out of hands.. people who would have contributed and made it worth while will run away and this Community Building" will be a laughing matter... And of course this is just an opinion... " Thanks. The same applies to you too - I have no reasons to question your sensibility. We come from different places on this but even when I have disagreed with you, I have respected your opinion. As for community building, it's already been there for several years and it's growing stronger. Just look at the stats behind the site. It's amazing. Full credits to San and everyone else, admins and users, who have played their part in making it happen. For me everyone who drops by to read and post on Sajha has an opportunity to join the play and if they chose not to, then that's upto them. "One can bash it and throw it under the bridge - or take it as a piece of an intellecutal discourse - or put it under spending <$25 things you can do sitting at home... :) " I like the sense of humor there! :) I am curious to hear any further thoughts from you. I think this converstaion you and I are having is proof of the fact that this issue can be discussed, if not settled, amicably, if only we don't get bogged down in triles and know when to let go.