I do agree that there's a few members who continually make derogatory and unhelpful comments and I think it derails from the serious and steadfast tone that our movement should have. It's not a huge deal if an important piece of news is posted and the first reply is a one sentence joke or an offensive remark but the few of us that post in this forum (out of the hundreds that merely browse) are representative of Dreamers. How would we feel if a person on the fence of supporting CIR nonchalantly searches for information, finds this forum, clicks on the first subforum (the News section) and sees these kinds of responses?

Just saying that we should try to keep those kinds of comments and catfights to private messages or the Off-Topic section.

EDIT: Not directing this specifically at the "new avatar" concern.