The Warrior Forum is full of nutters!

Well, not exactly full, but it has its fair share. This post is just a friendly heads up, in case you haven't noticed!

If you check out the membership numbers of this forum you'll see we have over 118,000. A high proportion of these folk are not active, quite a lot are lurkers, there'll be a fair few people with more than one account, but nevertheless we've got a big online community here.

And, as with any community, we got our fair old cross-section of people types. Thankfully most of the active members appear sensible and we get some great info and discussions. However, every now and then up pops an imbecile. They can be disguised as a troll, a spammer, a scammer or just a plain old, garden variety idiot. However they're dressed, please don't allow yourself to get riled. The law of averages and statistics says we're bound to get them.

Just for arguments sake, say out of the 100,000 members we have, on average, 1,000 people online at any one time. Did you know that some stats say that in any given group 1% will be pathological liars? That's 10 people viewing the forum at any one time that will lie just for the fun of it. I'd tell you the suggested proportion of psychopaths but that would just scare you.

My point is not to scare, but to remind you that this place is very much a reflection of the real world. There will be folk you like and folk you don't like. There'll be folk you want to do business with and folk who will rip you off. There will be folk that contribute and folk that just take or try to be destructive. That's life.

I wouldn't say this is reason enough to become paranoid but due diligence is always good practice.

Please take care.

Peter