Well, I am not new to forums. I ran forums under contract for both CompuServe (music and film) and Microsoft (over 100 on MSN) for years, and understand only too well how individuals arise who have time on their hands and succeed at obstructing, diverting, and hijacking threads, not because they have a point (or much of one), but because they can and have become skilled at doing so. The result is exchanges like this one we are having here, which also are sidebars. I considered making a home and spending more time here more than once, only to be reminded why I don’t. You suggest that I ignore them. Well, OK, but having done so, I find that these obstructers just continue to demand attention and use up all the oxygen. This is nothing new. These types love to lecture to me, but I don’t see them being told to tone down by moderators, etc., which is just, as I pointed out, an example of cronyism at its worst. It is sad that I am privately messaged that these characters are NOT what the forum is about, etc., but no one asks them to back off a bit.