Striking the right balance

I'm a member of many forums and, as many know, have now earned my stripes if only by virtue of being around a long enough time. On one forum posts are edited, members banned and so on almost without reason - at least one that the mods care to mention to those having their knuckles rapped. On others we discuss the ins and outs of AAS but pay a small monthly fee for the pleasure. But on what can quite easily be claimed as among the very biggest of forums inc Get Big, Bodybuilding.com and so on there seems to be one hell of a mess.

Now I get that many, if not most, of the membership of these sites comes from our younger brethren (15-18). So one can take some of the posts with the usual pinch of salt. Indeed said sites have their versions of what are called 'pits'. In such places you go play at being an ass and no one, or at least only the sensitive, takes what is said and done there too seriously. So someone calls someone else an ass-eater and they get the same and worse back. It's a slightly amplified and crude version of the sort of good natured joshing lads training give to each other.

But, as per a post on another forum recently, said ribbing - and not the good kind - is leaking across. RX had a post about a video they were going to put up and immediately the excited and somewhat immature demanded (yes that's correct) to know when and worse.

Obviously people will post up stuff some don't agree with so we do not all 'need to get along' but I feel people need to, using an old phrase, look at the bigger picture. Posts counts and attitudes don't mean shit. At some point you'll end up being seen in person. If you lack the 'skills' (strength, size, some muscle??) then you'll only ever be a legend on a PC. From fake photos, never buying a magazine, not training (yes some legends don't even work out) and just out and out lying... some of these morons don't realise that they damage they do to the sport they chose.

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