Is Tentmaker the only www forum you post on? Probably not. I post on a bunch, four audio forums, one bicycle forum, one conspiracy forum, and one other UR forum. Besides the conspiracy forum, the most negative forum environment I can recall was the (now non-functional) Trollheim sub-forum at the bicycle site. The most friendly (more friendly than here, believe it or not) was the official Harley-Davidson forum. Somehow, that doesn't quite track, but bicycle folks are a peevish lot, for whatever reason.
Be that as it may, I think I keep my audio stuff over at the audio forums, the bike stuff at the bike forum, and the conspiracy stuff over at ATS, though I do argue Hell/404 and UR over at the relevant ATS sub-forum. In the other direction, we don't need to drag our pet theories here unless it bears on the main subject(s) of Tentmaker: God, Jesus, the Gospel (true & false), and UR in all its facets. I have been guilty too, and have participated in threads which degenerated into babblefields. We need to do better.
One of the audio sites I frequent is Audiokarma, and their motto/tagline is: "All Audio, No Attitude," and I think it is a good rule, strictly enforced, BTW.
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No problem if things wander a little. Sometimes one thought leads to another, and good things can come out of that. As for the overall focus of TM, IMO, we just don't need to get into a rut/continuous direction of majoring on the minors. For the most part we do "OK". :)