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I don't know about this, Stephen. I didn't like some of the posts that appeared here either - but I believe the issue is important to the entire Filemaker community and it needs to be discussed somewhere. The fact that it cannot be discussed where it should be discussed IS the issue. I don't think we can sweep it under the rug and pretend nothing happened.

Mike,

This is not a reprimand to any involved, but it seemed like this weekend that was all that was being discussed. The root of the matter is the result of personality conflicts of a few individuals, be it egos, lack of caffeine or what not.

I am trying to be as diplomatic here allowing freedom of speech but to what point? What would you have me do?

By allowing this thread to continue the recent topics to turn in he said she said drama - in the end it doesn't really provide anything productive. New people would just see a lot of bickering. And think that we all need a group session in therapy.

A cooling off period would go a long way to getting back on track.

Can't we all just get along? :beer:

Can't we all just get along?

Hear, hear! Just so long as that isn't Budweiser you're drinking! That could mean war.

Stephen,

I understand your concerns, although I believe you are mistaken about the root of the matter being personal. Not for me anyway - and I was one of the participants in the controversy.

True, a large part of the discussion here digressed from the real issue, and unfortunately there's a lot of misinformation circulating around in private messages, unjustly hurting some people's reputations - including, to some extent, my own. I would have preferred to deal with this in the open and set the record straight on what really happened, but I won't insist on it.

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P.S. Ender is Mike - I am Michael. ;)

Yeh, I probably wouldn't have made it vanish... maybe locked it down, but vanishing is sooo, avoisionist (yes i realize that's not a word).

P.S. There wasn't really any FM discussion going on because it was a Sat / Sunday and not many questions usually come up on those days.