I think that for all of the educational content we work to provide on this side of the GRACE website, the Q&A forum for many people is the most valued part of the GRACE experience. It has its own community and tone, which I think are generally very welcoming. Though we do the best job we can offering helpful answers as well as a friendly experience, there are sometimes limitations in what we can provide. It’s long past time for me to formally offer what I’d consider to be the guidelines that aren’t necessarily intuitive. We should know that we should refrain from attacking each other, but here is the short list of how to be the best forum citizen you can be, all based on a goal of trying to provide as much information to as many people as possible, within the confines of limited time. And by encoding this short list, we’ll hope that people never take it personally if we run up against these guidelines.
