[RedBarchetta]

This statement won't be popular with some, but I'll say it anyway:

I have seen a lot of threads/posts on CC that would have been locked or deleted by admins on other similar forums for their negative connotations and/or content.

You don't see a lot of that here, and maybe that is applauded by some (i.e. freedom of speech). But the lack of controlled censor, in my humble opinion, can turn more people off than attract. Newbies read the bickering and think, "What a bunch of losers...I will go ask somewhere else."

Again, thicker skins prevail (and I can hang with anyone here). But the administration of the overall banter is not neutral and that lends to turning off some.

-Dean