I believe I saw a thread posted by someone who has been here for about a year, saying basically what this thread says. He was immediatley pounced on as a newbie, and he had no basis for his argument, and I believe the poor guy was banned. Crazy.
I've pretty much limited my posting to this thread. The rest of the forum is simply too crazy right now. If I do finally end up staying on FR, I'll probably wait a few weeks before going on other threads.