the problem isn't with the forum itself, its more with the regulars that frequent it. The flaming and general disrespect that people have towards it just turns a lot of people off towards it. (On another note, the people who do flame in there are terrible at. Calling someone a "kid," really? I think we all learned that one in 4th grade, nice job.) The problem is that people aren't respectful in ID whether their opinions are vaild or not, and until people change, I doubt ID will. I can see this being somewhat resolved by being stricter in the warning of people's posts, (rather then closing them, because that just kills ID by closing off the topic of discussion) but at the end of the day people are going to have to get talked to and told to put the flamethrowers away if we're going to have a successful forum.