Respect the other people who write in this forum.
You can discuss the ideas, not the people who express them.
To delegitimate or to slur other people would not make your arguments more valid.
Communication beteeen individuals is always hard. If written in a forum is even harder. Use your intelligence: never try interpreting other people’s comments in a “creative” way. Remember: assumption is the mother of all fuckups. If you should have any doubt, just ask.
Before posting a message answering to a comment of another person take a break. Read it again. It is much better spending a few minutes more making your points more clear and respectful, than starting a potentially neverending flame thread. Express your ideas in a educate language.
Sarcasm is funny as much as dangerous; use it with moderation.
Starting a flame war would age your skin. 
What did I miss
A good check, which i practice myself, in my sometimes over enthusiastic postings is to ask someone else in PM if a post is inflamatory or likely to cause offence, not that offence is EVER intended.
A thanks to Joe90 for sometimes being my soundboard in this.
Cheers
Sporran
Hmmmm, what bought this on then?
From what I see (in English anyway) there are no problems…
Just to be clear and honest…
I found many of the above mentioned advices in another forum.
I definetly like them, so I copied most of them and adapted them to our “club”, adding some more sentences, and I posted here as I wanted to see the general reaction of my EAF mates.
I am not pointing out to anyone behauviour.
I simply beleive I am conscious about how we can badly express ourselves when we do not see each other face to face and/or cannot use voice modulation. For Italians we cannot use the hands that are part of our body language tradition.
Knowing what above can help us in better express our point of view and avoid possible misinterpretation and conflicts.
Sometimes I am also too much “enthousiast” in underlining my point of view, maybe causing some unwanted reactions from the others. So I believe Sporran’s idea of benchmarking what we write with some of our fellow friends is a good idea (I also did it many times).
Last but not least, you can see herewith following an example of body language. The pictures were taken in 1944 and are about two Italian pilots of 132° ICAF Bomber Group (Gruppo Baltimore). If you simply look at them maybe you can hear what they are saying.
This help to show and to make clear that this way of helping our mood and ideas expression through body language is not possible in a forum discussion. Therefore we should be even more careful and conscious in the way we write in the forum. So this is why I pointed it out to - let say - some “guidelines”
Bear I think we need some new emoticons 
Ten years late Bear and no we do not fall for your trolling
He didn’t say we couldn’t be ironic, escape clause
Ming
Sporran’s idea of benchmarking
Whatever it is, Sporran’s involved
Ming
