Over in a Turf thread, Din wrote:
I will try to set up the TORC discussion forum as soon as possible. I will grant access to those who were originally signatories of the petition, and those new member's who want access to it. All threads that whinge about TORC will be sent that way.
Is that ok with everybody?
On that topic I would like to reiterate what I've said before about this issue.
I don't think it's a good idea to have a specific forum where we can go to talk about TORC or TORCers in a disparaging fashion. It would seem to me that to do so would be an invitation to bitch. And that - unless I am very much mistaken - is not something we wish to see develop here any more that that which we've put behind us.
Certainly, TORC may be an issue for some time to come, but one that I hope will lessen in time. If people are hurting they may need to share their feelings. To be honest, if a thread says 'TORC being discussed' in its title, it's a pretty heavy nod even to the curious, that things might not all be My Little Pony Land in there.
The lesson we need to learn from the last day or so is that we don't do ourselves any favours by responding to trolling or by getting irate when said troll roars and spits a bit. We also don't do ourselves any favours by casting about comments such as "X is a bitch", when we could so much more eloquently say that we were hurt by something they said or that we felt they were way out of line.
I feel like such a nag for even pointing out our own code of conduct, but the key is 'respect for others'. Even if they don't always extend the same courtesy to us.