Our good buddy NobleFree has not been very active lately. Maybe he got tired of being shouted down, or maybe he had some sort of epiphany. Who knows. I am not sure that we can count on him to liven up this discussion.
Not sure what you mean here; there have been exchanges I've ended after establishing a pattern of invincible ignorance on the other end.
I'm not as active on FR lately because I find the signal-to-noise ratio to have dropped.