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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 3267858" data-attributes="member: 56622"><p>I have evaluated my role in the side arguments.  I find myself culpable in many regards.  I am taking this opportunity to offer an apology to the forum at large.  However, I also find that I, sure as heck, am not alone, by a long, long shot in that culpability.  I don't think I am alone in needing to offer an apology for my role either.  I am stopping that, on my part here and now.  I hereby challenge everybody else to cease their role as well.  People can not function in a civil society unless the people in the society are themselves civil.  If we want a civil forum it is up to us to make it civil.  The first step everyone needs to take is to refrain from giving  overbearing forum trolls the oxygen they need to function.  Just ignore them and hit the report the post button.</p></blockquote><p></p>