Now, lets play a game.

Name a forum where potshots are a way of life.

The answer would be...THE!

Right, they inhale potshots.

But now, lets say, an informational type of forum has members that occasionally blurt out potshots...

such as the Medical Procedures Forum..., clearly, a potshot on such a forum would and could have far reaching consequences to a person's standing on that forum, as compared to the forum "THE".

A potshot on one forum and you are a hero, on another forum, a zero.