Posted By Richard Spencer Think of a provocative thread and post it in that forum.

Posted By Diane Thomason Personally, I made a decision not to visit either the membership issues or internal business forums. Maybe some other members have made the same choice. Looking back at the origins of the closed forums - membership and business issues were often discussed on the open forums one way or another, and the discussions tended to get rather silly - the same people kept stating their same opinion over and over again, people didn't read postings properly before replying, and there was sometimes some rather pathetic personal abuse. On the whole it often got to be like watching two little boys squabbling in the back of their mum's Volvo on the school run, and I got sick of it. But that's just my opinion of course!

Posted By Peter Brown I used the study support forum when I was studying for my diploma. I found most responses very good and the advice offered very usefull. I agree that certain individuals are less than helpful , but we should not let them spoil it for rest of us who find the discussion forums a good source of information.

Posted By Ken Taylor My 'hot-link' button takes me straight here as this is where the interesting action tends to be as far as health and safety at work is concerned - in my opinion that is. Others may disagree but are they voting with their mice and keyboards?

Posted By Geoff Burt Diane For once I find myself in agreement with Richard (and believe me that was a hard statement to make!). That is what debate is. Is it pathetic to repeat your point of view; surely not? Of course there will be 'spats', even if we are in H&S, we still retain our 'human' fallibility. The difficulty with electronic discussions is putting over the humour and sometimes it goes wrong - but it goes wrong face to face as well. The danger is we can take ourselves too seriously - who wants continuous serious debate, not me. Up with debate, I say. Geoff