
Carolyn, I would love to see that. I wouldn't be using articles from here though. They could dismiss it as "non-scientific" or "using your own articles to prove points that aren't correct" or something, and we might end up with some unwanted attention on this forum.
But from what it sounded like, Paj took my advice on the one thread Brandon got argumentative on, and took it to PM at least.
It honestly drives me crazy when she argues like that sometimes. The arguments she has with some members can last for several pages long, and then it just strays completely from the initial topic of the thread. I almost had it with the one that happened in
this thread, when she started talking about hormones, but the maker of the thread got it back on topic. Though here's what I might have said:
what I would have wrote:
I'm sorry, but can we please drop this? It shouldn't matter the cause of Rio's aggression, because he is in a home where he is happy now with a family that loves him. If you have something to argue about, I suggest you do so via PM.
This thread isn't even about Rio. It's about Liv's poor Quaker who ended up with a giant hole on his torso due to mutilation. While Liv seems to have it taken care of, I suggest we stop wasting time and energy on a thing of the past, and start trying to help Liv come up with ideas to improve her bird's quality of life so he won't feel the need to pluck and self mutilate ever again.
I am kind of thankful that the maker of that thread stepped in himself though. Things might have turned ugly if I actually posted that.

I'm not one for getting into conflict, but sometimes my mod experience tells me to take charge and end things, even though Paj outranks me in that forum (though the most I usually do as a mod is get rid of spam bots). Sometimes, I don't even know how to feel about Paj. She did help me out a little when I got Lucy back, but sometimes I question her advice. There are a couple of other members I see who constantly counter her, and it can be very, very amusing.

Somehow, they even do it without getting banned. Here's one where both said members were arguing with her. It was in a thread I made about Alex:
http://theparrotforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=14928