"I'll admit its advantageous to discuss negative aspects. But can't we do it privately and occasionally?"

What? Clear something up for me. It's advantageous to discuss the negatives but only in private? What good does that do on an open forum?

Do you remember back in the day when anything negative was posted on this board? What good did all the strictly positive posts do that were in many many cases leaning heavily to pipe dreaming and hyped speculation?

Big difference between positive thinking and whether the situation at hand is positive. Too many times positive thinking whitewashed the situation.

Just my opinion