Based on the demeaning responses to my straightforward reply, I've decided against posting any impressions or news from the trip. No trip report will be published. I will share my impressions privately with selected members who add value to the board (in my opinion), and will share less knowledge and insight publicly going forward.
As a new moderator (I applied the day joenatural became mod), I became an active contributor again. I re-read the terms of usage and forum rules. It seems that I could delete these posts that denigrate members who are going on the trip. But I don't want to set the same ugly, repetitive, attacking tone.
The demeaning posts speak for themselves, reflecting their authors' personal agendas.
I don't deny that I support SIAF and hope for success, but I am a natural skeptic (that's why I went on last year's tour) and I am not blind to the problems of the company. Comments, at a minimum, were unfair. I have been critical of Solomon as often as not.
Posts such as these responses undermine the aims of the forum by defaming and sabotaging honest exchanges of real information about SIAF.
