Happy birthday boys, and gals, and good job to everyone for their hard work and the long hours you put here.
Criticism has little place on a "birthday", but it's nevertheless a good occasion to stress that there is room for improvement at MR. A lot of good posters from the mac community have been banned from here by the refusal of the moderation team to take a firmer stance against the pc crowd's insistence on populating apple related forums with taunts and generally inane posts on the mac experience. This is first and foremost, if not exclusively, an apple news and discussions place and it should be kept that way and safeguarded. Sites like apple insider should be a good guide on how moderating should be done instead: with a light touch, but a firm hand in terms of what is and isn't consistent with the identity of this place.
This site has instead been taking a very permissive approach with the pc crowd to its detriment. I know a lot of apple users/developers/aficionados who have come to despise MR for that and I am sorry to say that most of them are right. Trying to cater to everyone gives you possibly a bigger user base but on a lowest common denominator basis.
Apple users should be welcome here and not feel they should be in a constant state of apologetics to anyone. Especially since apple has grown and branched out so much in these past ten years that their great and innovative products are bound to attract the attention of people who wouldn't have otherwise taken notice. And some of these people being misinformed or generally bitter about apple's success will come to these forums and effect them adversely. Case in point the new ipad sub forum, easily the worst sub forum on MR.
Anyway enough with that, some things had to be said, and hopefully they may be duly noted.
HAPPY TEN YEARS MR, BEST WISHES FOR THE NEXT TEN AND MORE TO COME.
