Most of those rules are nothing more than an opinion. Who's to say what is an appropriate amount of characters or information in a post? What's useful to one member might not be to another, and come on no answering questions that have already been answered? It's called a second opinion and we don't always want to read every comment before trying to help someone out. Sometimes we get off topic and start talking about other things, that's how conversations work. You guys, whoever you are, just need to concentrate on the personal attacks and the blatant spam or your going to decrease the activity on the site. I am not active on other boards because they censor everything and RIU has always been an unbiased and social place for me to hang out, don't go changing that, you guys both registered 2 months ago, and are telling us what is appropriate and helpful to the forum? I really fail to see how 2400 posts in that time is not due to short, irrelevant posts and spam, kinda like this thread.