Bob,
I'm starting to worry about you...everything you disagree with is a "conspiracy theory"...
Have you noticed that when you make sense that the great majority, if not all, of the members here agree with you, and sometimes even commend you for your efforts to help out all of us, the fish, and our fishing opportunities?
You don't don your tin foil hat and listen for clicks on your phone line then...why must you do it when you (Oh! the horror!
Weaken chain of what? Chain of sense? Logical, progressive arguments?
The goon squad is in your head...
I won't speak for anyone else, but I know that I post in a few situations. Here's one...
A topic comes up that I'm interested in...if I have a question, I ask it...if I have a comment, I make it...if someone else has a question I know the answer to, I give it...and I am especially quick to jump in when folks are wrong either factually, or logically, about topics that I do know about.
I'm especially quick to jump in in those cases because we as sportfishers can't have the political power to get anything done without the correct information...and offhand use of wrong information is worse than not saying anything at all.
I'd hate to be the flower delivery guy in your neighborhood

, or even worse, the cable or telephone repair guy.
Fish on...
Todd.