set yourself freeAt the risk of sounding like your dad (I am probably twice as old as most of you here), might I suggest that you take control of the SH board by using the filters that are provided. By using the ignore function, you will only see posts that are worthy of a read or reply. Instead of spending time talking about individual posters, you can spend time discussing GEN. I do put posters on ignore to weed out the noise. Now when I come to the GEN board, it seems pretty quiet! The other benefit of ignoring is that it doesn't give the attention seekers an audience. When they see that no one is reading their posts and no one is responding to them, they will become irrelevant (until they register a new pseudonym). BTW, just because a post is negative, doesn't mean that it isn't valuable. In fact, some negative posts might just save us from making a bad decision or help us to cut our losses.