bcopar, I would suggest you have the thread pulled and resubmit a thread with the valid points you are making included in their entirety.
Having read your opinions over many years, I presume you did not intend to have this effect or distraction.
Your points are valuable ones and deserving of discussion, but are completely lost in the forest of people who have a focus on a different agenda are make it nearly impossible to follow discussion on what you meant to say.
There are people to whom the act of “blog pimping” is considerably more egregious than real life pimping, just as there are people who are more intent on discouraging things like posting in the wrong forum and such. Once the battle begins, what points you make bocome completely irrelevant to those people, in much the same way some instructors will not consider your remarks unless you have raised your hand first. They have reasons they view as valid and the reasons, to them, are more important by far than the content of your words.
I disagree with the extent of that focus, but it is what it is.
Just my opinion, bcopar...
It is a matter of being honest and honorable.
I appreciate it if a friend buys or makes me a gift.
I wouldn’t appreciate it if they stole something and gave it to me.
See, blogpimping is no better than stealing and I am not going to give this guy or any other pimp a hit just like I won’t keep stolen stuff.
If bocopar has honor then they can post in full if not then they can expect to be a pariah.