I really can’t elevate the HJ thing to any priority level....I also believe he should be able to express him self freely on the BBS as you all have the option of NOT reading his posts...I also allow him the latitude I would give any of you so if nothing else you should be happy to speak your mind on the BBS....
Having been blocked from another (un-named) website by latter-day Puritans who dwell excessively in political correctness, I find this site a breath of fresh air, so long as the mindless and meaningless jabs don't get personal. This particular thread, however, is a good example of the trite quibbles that can engage one's interest to the exclusion of greater and more important matters in re: double guns.
As to the other website, the constant "disappearing" of threads was often a topic that, itself, also disappeared after a chiding by the master of political correctness and "speak-no-evil" who, himself, disappeared from the BOD, thus proving his "hall monitor" efforts to be thankless.
Yet I see this hall-monitoring type of censorship rear its ugly head here sometimes and, thankfully, Dave Weber has a policy of letting things run their course. Rest assured that this thread would have long since disappeared on certain other websites. In HAM radio terms, these masters of political correctness are called "Deputy Dogs" who troll the frequencies breaking in with their comments, much to the distraction and dislike of the real players.
One way to monitor the one-liners would be to require that all posts be at least two paragraphs, in complete sentences, and correctly punctuated. But why bother? You can personally, and quite simply block the non-contributors without having Dave take up one side or the other, thus giving importance to an otherwise trite issue.
Some mindless non-contributors have no original thoughts and only respond to the posts of others, be it one-line zingers or questions as to the "rules" of "allowable" expression of free speech in the micro-cyberspace occupied by this very site, as if it's zero-sum, and one man's worthless opinion somehow cuts into another man's profound insight into the meaning of life in-so-far as double guns are concerned. Lighten up guys.... EDM