Ron:

I don't think anyone has a problem with people chiming in on any threads, club-oriented or not. Not everyone has to agree. But when the same few people consistently, and over the course of several years, reply to every single post on a forum with a chorus of declamations? When it becomes impossible to make announcements of club activities without being subsumed by an avalanche of negative posts by the same few people? That's called 'hijacking a forum', and it's a well-documented phenom. I can't speak for Chris, but I'm pretty sure he did not mean for club forums to become dog-fighting pits.