Dear Members.

Thank you all for your messages throughout the holiday weekend, and a special thank you to those who showed maturity and cooler heads.

As you are aware, several members have gotten into altercations with each other. What is especially dissapointing, is that some of these membres carry senior authorities within this HUB and AGORACOM as a whole.

This kind of behavior serves nobody. If you can't agree with another, then there is no reason to be kicking up the dust, especially on a public discussion forum with thousands of eyes on you.

We tried to give you all a soft warning mid last week; then again over a holiday weekend.

To no avail.

As such and on an ongoing basis, we will be taking a very strict approach to enforcing the six rules of use, that over 2000 other HUB's and over 1.1 million Community members adhere to.

On first violation, you will receive a warning; second violation will result to an automatic ban.

We really do feel sincerely regretful, however from the feedback we are getting, we cannot allow this to continue.

Everyone here feels that they have chosen their words carefully. Our advice would be to think very long and hard into that statement.

We trust that with your co-operation, we can get the forum back on track.

We invite everyone to stick to their factual arguments and refrain from making personal accusations, even if it is an indirect jab towards another.

To prevent a discussion from turning to conflict, you are encouraged to stick to a few facts to make your statement; but kindly do your best to avoid personal characterizations. If you feel you are baited to respond to an inflammatory post, please report THAT message/user as a violation, and let an Admin work on resolving the situation.

Please take a moment to review our six rules of use here.

As for the vote we discussed earlier, the community has spoken; Greeneyes111 will stay aboard as a HUB Leader as the Community has agreed upon. We assure you that no "new" accounts or funny votes have been created to tamper with the vote.

If you would like to follow suite for other HUB Leaders, please send us your recommendations using the General Inbox, with "PTSC - HUB Leader - USERNAME" in the Subject Line. We'd be happy to address these issues with you in this manner.

Thank you all again for your patience and understanding.

Regards,

AGORACOM