I have to say I agree with Mark on this, I don't see the need for all the negativity, if you've got nothing nice to say, say nothing at all and all that... Most of the criticism doesn't seem constructive to me, more like slagging - and surely slagging makes for a less inviting forum than if there's no slagging - unless you're the sort of person who gets off on slagging other peoples work.

I mean people can make up their own minds about a record, you'd think some people must think their opinion is pretty important - the way they go on and on - one post saying they don't like something is one thing - but why the need to keep hammering the point? It's just slagging to my mind, however much someone hates a record you can guarantee someone will buy it, and that's there prerogative.

I'm sure more people are put off by this than by threads getting locked, and at the end of the day it's Marks forum and he can run it how he wants - there's always other forums to slag stuff, it's not like Mark's saying if you slag stuff off on the net you'll be in trouble. Some threads get locked a little early for my liking, but then some don't get locked when they may as well be as far as I'm concerned, but that's fine.