My strategy on sites such as this is to keep myself from responding to the "negative nellies" or those who it is obvious are simply trying to start a fight. I keep my responses positive, admittedly I don't respond to a lot of threads, however.

If I do respond to something it is usually based on some fact or history of my life. If someone has a problem with what I say, it's their problem, not mine, so I just let it go. A very wise friend of mine taught me this many years ago. Most people trying to start a fight will go away if you just don't respond to them. Thanks, Gene, for teaching a very young and naive "right-fighter" another way of handling disputes!

I hear about that "other site" when I first found DetroitYes. I looked at it once, and decided it was not a place I wanted to visit again.