Okay class...listen up! We're changing the seating assignments. Sucks...row 1...last seat. Irish...row 6...last seat. Gonna have to separate Oscar and Frank. ILikePie...front row center. Wiseguy! Stop with the spitballs!

Numbah...No. Weapons. In. Class!

Everyone else...put your heads on your desk and shut up.

Today I will be reading to you from the Penny Shopper...

frogio! Leave Kamylienne alone...or I'm sending you to Magellan's office...

Let it stand. Some reviewers need to make fun of others so that they can enhance their own self esteem, likely butchered at home or work by co-workers or family members. It's easier to manipulate a cyber community who doesn't know who you are, than the people you live with and can tell you exactly who you are.

This is just a place to rant and rave about others on the site. Rants tend to get too personal. Dump it.

Disagree completely. If you post something on here, you are opening yourself up to discussion and debate. And yes, from the ignorant minorty, hate. It's a fact of life. I've disagreed with censorship elsewhere on this site, and I disagree with it here. After all, if we can't discuss other people's posts on here, what's the point??

Boo! Some of the fun here is heavily involved in the personalities here.

Nah. . .let kids be kids. . .these types clearly need to be heard. Don't you people get sick of throwing darts at each other in cyberspace?

Some of you people are such rabid little ankle biters when it comes to the things you believe, but let one person take exception and, especially if they manage to carve you up verbally in a way you are incapable of dealing with intellectually, then suddenly you turn into a roomfull of hot house roses. In the long run who really CARES if people have disagreements - that's life, it happens. Think of a good comeback or shutup and move on. At the very least have the guts to face the person through email on this board instead of sending filth anonymously to a home address you may have happened on. Either that or do as other squeaky wheels have been doing - whine to Daddy Admin. That seems to be working really well for some of the spine challenged people lately.

This is an interesting one. I think it would doable to enforce a rule that says you can't mention another reviewer in a post, period. The benefit of course would be to reduce these ridiculous, drawn out, for lack of a better word p***ing contests that pollute the reviews. The downside is that it's very hard to treat a review in a vacuum - very often its tempting (and helpful) to rebut or refer to specific points another poster raises. Not sure what the right answer is on this one, but these long tit for tat exchanges are sure getting annoying.

Not a bad idea, but I suspect it would either be impossible to police, or so time-consuming as not to be worth the effort.

seems like an okay idea. i mean it's not a big deal when people reference you when making a point but i've had some folks on here, who use their reviews of topics and other reviews to simply put me down instead of sending a personal email or defending themselves. i'm not saying i havent done the same. that said, this can get out of hand. but i thin RIA has done a decent job of monitoring the situation. i know i've been asked to change some things i've passionately written off about someone in a review. and i've complied, and even agreed w/RIA after a gained a cooler head.

I don't see the big deal, people mention my name in comments all the time. Some are positive and some are negative and downright hateful. I try to stay positive with people and often respond when a comment is made directly about one of my comments. Some of the ones that comment about me say that I give up when I see the back and forth talk going nowhere, I don't give up and offer them the opportunity to talk in private, but they decline. I do not want to turn off other readers/ raters by needless chatter.

I typically don't see much good in rating RIA reviewers; If I rate reviewers, I try to keep it within the general list created by magellan rather than its multiple spinoffs, since it can be pretty redundant, and when I do bother to write, I try to be somewhat nice, if not at least try to be constructively critical. I can see where the gushing and constant pat-each-other-on-the-back mentality gets a little nauseating, and the tiny little personal spats loses whatever entertainment value it might have pretty quickly. But, when it boils down to it, the site's called rate-it-ALL, not rate-only-the-stuff-that-won't-offend-anyone, so if it bugged me that much, I'd just go somewhere else or start my own website.

Yeah, I don't see any point to it no mo'. I don't even wanna discuss referring with RIA Reviewers. It's overrated. It sux!

I do this by choice. I mention other reviewers only when I have something positive to say. When I need to address someone else's foolishness I use general terms so as not to embarrass them when I point out illogical thinking and bring hypocrisy to light.

Nah. I just think they should be a little bit more regulated but for the most part I find that learning what others think of you is essential to finding your faults. (And no, saying you stupid. 'nuff said. is not that essential.lol)