Folks - slight interjection from the cheap seats.

Bart is a long-time poster on FT, and used to spend quite a bit of time here in TS/S answering questions about TSA and their policies/procedures. He left to play in other parts of FT for quite a while. IMO, he did this because of the level of vehemence not so transparently directed at individual TSOs participating in this forum rather than the TSA as a whole.

Personally, I can understand the prickly responses on this thread, as he has been ungraciously torn a new backside by several people on here from the outset of his involvement in the thread. Look at some of his older posts; the comparison to TSO Ron is not valid, IMO. (FWIW - I would not consider a failure to respond to another poster's comments within 3 hours "slinking off")

This is not a defense of current posting actions, as I do see some comments where it appears as if Bart was responding to individual posts without reading the linked material from the OP. However, aren't we supposed to debate the content of a post, rather than the motivations or attitudes of the person posting?