I have to admit that I don’t frequent the forum as much as I initially did mainly due to the religious/political sniping that is always taking place. I don’t mind if it is contained within a political or religious thread but it seems to make it’s way into too many real estate threads as well.

Is there a single thread regarding the Temecula/Murrieta housing scam where 4plexowner doesn’t arrogantly scoff at the fact that most of the Murrieta buyers involved go to church and are therefore obviously far more gullible than a normal person? There are countless other real estate related threads in which people make negative insinuations regarding Bush’s intelligence or the stupidity of Republicans etc. I’m not religious and I don’t think Bush is highly intelligent but it still annoys me when I have to read some arrogant persons religious or political opinion in a thread where it doesn’t really belong. I also have to admit that it seems to occur mostly from the left. I know that demeaning other peoples viewpoints makes them feel that there personal view is more sacrosanct but is the need to do so so ingrained into their persona that they feel they need to inject their view into every thread they “contribute” to?

If you want to talk about how you feel Christians are gullible and stupid then start a thread called “Christians are gullible and stupid” or perhaps one called “Conservatives are Morons and everyone on the Left, like Me, are highly intelligent and Enlightened”. Then I can just avoid those threads and not have to read the drivel. Otherwise, in the end, I will probably not visit the site at all.

It may be inevitable that all largely unmoderated public forums will degrade to a point where only kindergarten style bantering takes place wholly unrelated to the forum topic but I would hope it won’t happen here because I enjoy reading the clean, uncorrupted real estate related threads. I guess we’ll find out in the long run.