Please excuse this intrusion into Tom's thread, but BFL keeps getting brought up as being responsible for any negative post against Tom.  Aside from Tom & Inaba's personal sparing, BFL has no bad feelings for bASIC.  We welcome Tom, Avalon and others into the market and look forward to friendly competition.  It will only benefit the consumers and the bitcoin community overall.

For the record...  Mesarah has nothing to do with BFL and we don't appreciate the mudd slinging.  

There's been well over a year of pleasure trolling at our expense and with moderator involvement.  This has had a negative impact on the value of these forums.  We've tried not to engage it and as a result have mostly left the forums to take their own course.  I think most people would agree with me that the signal to noise ratio has worsened considerably as a result.

Please be fair when that crowd think takes on other targets...   and don't assume BFL is the source.  We're not.  Having the moderators carry this assumption forward is doubly bad.  With a fair approach, we can restore the value of these forums, but it's going to take some effort and fresh thinking.