No Baz, you're wrong. It's less than a handful of people using the new barbel section who just can't resist using the forum to spit poison at each other and f*** everybody else who wants to have a sensible debate.
I've got personal emails flying in as we speak, asking me to delete this posting and that posting, and one or two who are asking me to delete the inane stuff are amongst those who are posting it!
If everyone would just give the section a chance (and believe it or not there is more good stuff on it than personal crap) then we might get somewhere a bit faster.
We have an odd one or two who are proud of being able to post pollution - using hit and run tactics - all through the forum, not just on any particular section, with the aim of causing trouble. If they could use some common sense that would help too. But there again, they're the first ones to complain.
How can making a new forum section cause splits? Unless there are those who want it to.
I repeat, if anyone doesn't like barbel, KEEP OFF THE BARBEL SECTION! If you don't like carp, KEEP OFF THE CARP SECTION! Leave them to those who do like those species.
It really is as simple as that.