Guys, I hang around a few forums where posters tend to be young or inexperienced in the internet arts. HN can be even more arcane than those places. Generally

Guys, I hang around a few forums where posters tend to be young or inexperienced in the internet arts. HN can be even more arcane than those places. Generally you get a better response by being nice in threads like this - karma bombing the guys responses isn't going to help much. A 0 seems fair for some of the comments; but -4 (which some of the comments are oscillating to) feels a little OTT. Maybe dial it off a bit; and hopefully sambeau will start to figure things out and in time we'll have another solid member :)