Thanks for your questions, Silver/.

I specifically talked about “constructive engagement” (ie discussion and interaction) rather than “constructive criticism”. I just mean “constructive” in its dictionary sense of positive, useful and helpful rather than negative and unhelpful, and tending to build to improvements or advances.

I’ve already offered some suggestions for identifying what is or isn’t going to be positive and helpful to discuss here. Including being mindful that people reading and posting on these forums will be diverse and united only in an interest in Larian’s games, doing our best to avoid insulting those who have different outlooks from our own and refraining from wandering off on political, philosophical or ideological analyses, especially ones that involve negative interpretations of others’ behaviour, and instead trying to keep our discourse clear, specific and relevant to the topic at hand (particularly when we know it’s related to a subject that can cause controversy).

Other than asking we all display basic netiquette, I am loath to be any more prescriptive as I in no way want to shut down valid debate. Personally, I think with good will, consideration and respect for other forum members we should all be capable of working out whether something we are tempted to post crosses the line. But I acknowledge there may be grey areas and as I have said, if anyone has something specific they want to post and they are not sure if it is appropriate, they can PM me with a draft. As long as it appears they are asking in good faith and have tried their best to make their post civil and constructive, I will happily provide a steer.

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"