excellent post. there are 3-4 really toxic and bogus characters. with alex and freaky being among those. I know for a fact that they would try to wreck and destroy this forum. they would like nothing better. they pretty much know that they are not welcome here and that they would be eliminated rather instantly.
other than that, I am thinking like you are thinking. let people be themselves here and let them enjoy themselves.
check out the Camelot mission statement for example:
I have absolutely zero desire to get in anybody's way here. people can do anything they please.
here we all tend to do our own thing and nobody really bothers anybody.
sort of a like a shopping mall with everybody having and owning their own shop.
and we have the coolest chat thread on the planet: Emma's Café.
folks can always gather at the café, relax, and sip fresh coffee. café is open 24 hours a day.
in fact the whole place is set up like a chat thread. we just don't care what you talk about and at which thread.
we are just glad that you are talking.
the "Camelot Sports Show in Progress also is a bit of a chat thread. a random chat thread, that is.
Most people have zero or little tolerance for others' opinions because God forbid if anyone disagrees with them and that's the main conflict online. Neither realizes that it's just a matter of opinion and not a direct quote from the Bible.
For example, any opinion I had given on MW, I was at least 90% of the time very respectful in giving it, but those who had zero tolerance for others' opinions found it rather difficult and as a result, they put their dark self on the table out in the open. At some point I realized that these very people weren't at all open and quite rigid in their approach and nasty at times even. And it wasn't going to change so I did the next best thing I knew and left the forum.
If we do get bigger then that sort of thing is bound to happen here too but then again, you can't stop this forum from growing either. Certain things just are too competitive and sports is one of them and posters have their favourites and that makes things even worse. That's why I highly doubt that I will be able to sustain on forums for too long. It feels like a waste of time no matter how I look at it.