Professionalism post for forum

This was something I posted last year on a TPRS forum after noticing that teachers are not always civil to one another... I am posting it here to remind myself of the exact same things.

First allow me to say that I am a long time member, very infrequent poster of the forum and that this forum has been invaluable to me over the years to help me learn about ideas of others to try out in my own classroom as well as remind me I am not crazy for using CI / TPRS methods in my classroom instead of more “traditional methods”.

With that said, I have noticed over the last year that this forum has become a place where bullying is tolerated.  It seems as though when someone offers an opinion, others are quick to jump on that and show intolerance.