Counsellor, I appreciate your anaysis, and I agree with much of it. I am not leaving, but I will say that I spend a lot less time on FT than I used to. I consciously try to avoid most of the areas where OZ posts. A week or so ago I reversed that policy and actually posted a couple fo things in response to him. Probably a mistake. I'm sick of his crap on our rug! I am a pacifist, but not that extreme of one--I'm at the point which Dorian spoke of so eloquently in dealing with a bully; I'm fed up. But I don't want to leave. I really value FT too much for that. I would like there to be some solution to this where FT would not be home to all the flame wars, suspicion, egotistical shouting and such that have grown up here since last year. But I guess if there were an easy solution, we'd have found it? Catman, I'd be sorry to se you go...

I remember when I first joined FT, how nicely I was welcomed, even though my first posts were duplicates, one in the wrong forum! Today, I'd likely be slammed so hard I'd never come back if those were my first posts. Luckily I got a chance to experience FT when it was a much kinder, friendlier place. That's still how I think of it. But it's really changing, for the worse, and I hope we find some way to better it!