Everyone's free to make their personal choices, but I hope no one decides to leave the BB. I appreciate that the moderators are quite tolerant. I recall that the freedom of speech isn't about the speech that I agree with; it's about the speech I disagree with. Nonetheless, I don't advocate a no-holds barred level of tolerance. I try to always consider that this BB is part of Bob's website, and therefore is his private property. The only value any website has is its content. In that context, I try to add value to the website content, in the hope that the owner/moderators will approve and allow me to continue to share information and my opinions here.

As a result, I usually refrain from emotional posts. Of course, that's a good way to get very few responses. It's the emotional, passionate posts, the ones most lacking in logic, the ones suggesting the poster has poor critical thinking skills, that receive the most responses. Yet, that's a form of content, if you like that sort of entertainment. But it tends more toward entertainment than useful information. Ah well, the website gets a lot of hits.

At first I was puzzled when I observed folks continually replying to irrational posts where a prior poster either lacked or didn't employ any critical thinking skills. I finally concluded that the responders probably knew better, but just couldn't resist the perverse entertainment value of threads going off the deep end.

Anyway Jerry, I hope you don't ban anyone from the board unless it's clear to you that they're devaluing the website with their contributions.

Sincerely,

Salmo g.