As you may have noticed, the amount of off topic debates taking place in the comments of various articles has escalated a good amount recently. Biased comments, bringing up debates of articles long past, and general lack of thinking before posting. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m all for a little heated debate, but these wind up being off-topic and more than a little heated, usually with misinformation and bias running amok on all sides. I’ve even seen debates of multiple issues at once, none of which are on topic. Arguing what features in Vista are original, who’s fault it is that PowerPC chips are having yield problems, and whether or not Apple caters to their consumers or creators more all at the same time? That’s what I call multitasking!

Now, you may have notice certain… patterns… in respect to how these get started. All I’ll say is: you know who you are. I’m asking two things, one, please think before you decide to slam another platform, think before you decide to bring up an old debate, especially if it is just to aggravate another one (which shouldn’t be done at all, really) and two, if you think you are getting off topic, please move to a forum topic. It helps people who came for the topic find comments relating to the topic.

If people watched what they say, we can make this community a much better place for all.

Thanks.