I suggest we give new people benefit of the doubt,

I suggest we give new people benefit of the doubt, while we maintain vigilance for trolling. Many of us have "known" each other from various message boards for a long time, but hopefully we will start getting some new posters too.

Also, some long-time lurkers may start posting. Because of the past experiences with people posting in bad faith, not to mention under many different names, we may be getting a little hypersensitive about the possibility of trolling. Remember, the basher tricks that were successful on other boards will NOT be successful here, because the moderators here won't delete the posts that refute bashing nonsense (and in fact welcome refutations of bashing).