This site began because a friend and I were bemoaning the generally poor quality of discussion online. If only, we said, there were somewhere that we could discuss matters, important or unimportant, without being subject to endless trolling, personal abuse, and generalized profanity. So the idea was born.
It has been a long while in the making because I am a perfectionist and nothing was ever quite right. I have now been persuaded that it is better to make a start with something which is good enough without having to be perfect, so for better or for worse here it is.