I have noted that a correspondent at Pat Hammond's MREmag has stated that DCC correspondence sent to Pat Hammond can contain rude emotional comments about other correspondents and this seems only to afflict the DCC side of things. Pat has said he will edit out comments that contain remarks of a personal nature. I totally support that stance so well done Pat!
If it was me I would take it a stage further and not even bother to publish correspondence that contains such remarks but Pat has refrained from taking this course of action for now.
I have also noted that it is broadly only DCC discussion in any model railway chit chat area on the web that engenders such high emotional outbursts.
This seems to be at odds in a world where model railway hobbyists are generally courteous, friendly, helpful and polite. There is no other subject matter in the model railway world that I can see that seems to bring emotions to the fore as DCC and digital control.
My own personal experiences are that when you have a face to face chit chat with fellow hobbyists about DCC then hobbyists are courteous, friendly, helpful and polite and do the hobby credit.
However things seem to change when confronted with a computer keyboard and hobbyists start behaving badly!
Am I right or wrong and why is this?
Happy modelling
Gary

If it was me I would take it a stage further and not even bother to publish correspondence that contains such remarks but Pat has refrained from taking this course of action for now.
I have also noted that it is broadly only DCC discussion in any model railway chit chat area on the web that engenders such high emotional outbursts.
This seems to be at odds in a world where model railway hobbyists are generally courteous, friendly, helpful and polite. There is no other subject matter in the model railway world that I can see that seems to bring emotions to the fore as DCC and digital control.
My own personal experiences are that when you have a face to face chit chat with fellow hobbyists about DCC then hobbyists are courteous, friendly, helpful and polite and do the hobby credit.
However things seem to change when confronted with a computer keyboard and hobbyists start behaving badly!
Am I right or wrong and why is this?

Happy modelling
Gary