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I'll take as a compliment that you say that my comments "matter", and that I have cred here other than staff status. Credibility as a contributing person matters much more than a staff title - and I speak only for myself in this thread.

Still, I think you are making more out of what I am saying than you should. You ask why some people don't post here anymore and speculate that they are afraid of being confronted with facts. I used to come here to learn - and I would post and debate with people I disagreed with to elicit more of their point of view. There was a streak where I was able to get a lot from the posters here that way. I'm merely saying that for me, the rewards I get for the time I spend here have fallen dramatically. I'm just not into putting lots of time into things that aren't rewarding or fun anymore. A part of that is that I became very frustrated reading your posts (I'm speaking of 8+ months ago when I was more active) and find that they are heavy on content and light on analysis and, at times, relevance. I linked the thread I did, because it was striking in that we danced around that very issue. That thread is but an example, and frankly, I'm not gonna go read 30 pages of links and quotes to be able to give a list of threads here that illustrate what I'm talking about. I don't suspect it would change anything, and I'm not trying to get into a war of attrition by drowning each other in paragraphs. Besides that, it isn't the point of your question. I'm telling you one reason I haven't been posting.

Despite what you suspect, I don't toy with people. Not ever, not anyone, not here, and not in real life. I am direct and honest, and expect the same of others in return. I am also skeptical, and trust my own judgment. This is why I really did want you to post examples of what you claimed happened...happening. In understanding what is going on around me, I'm looking for causation to go with correlation. This is the heart of effective analysis. Smooth made this exact point in his last post, which I unfortunately forgot about until this morning when I dug that thread up. I've been thinking about his questions regarding correlation as evidence, and I haven't decided where I draw the line yet.

I guess we do disagree about how to present our opinions here. And that's ok - I don't make the law here, and I don't try to stop people from doing things I disagree with. Just don't paint me in with those you feel are afraid of "truthiness". That's what I have to say here in public. I'll shoot you a pm with more, since I also don't believe in turning threads into private conversations.

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