As far as people responding at the tables, I normally have chat off unless its a PO game on merge; the other sites have such tiny boxes and I would rather have tourney info in them then watch 4 out of 10 people at the table type about how much better they are at poker then everyone else. On the topic of forums; PO is kinda going to draw more trolls and assholes than your average poker forum because a lot of money is available here, and actually succeeding at poker is only one of the ways to get some of it. Think of PO like you home-teams stadium, its full of people who are there for the same reason you are, and like the same thing you like, but there are also some drunks, assholes, trolls, and even a few thieves mixed in. For the most part just like most gathering places you need to focus on the positive and try and ignore the negative.