[["Sir, why do you keep hitting yourself in the head with that hammer?" "Because it feels so good when I stop."]] In this case, it was "Because it feels so good when I can STOP others from expressing themselves." (thanks so much for your lovely attempt to trivialize the question, btw.) All that crap about it "being detrimental" is just that, crap. That "silence" mateo so smugly gloats about is the "silence of dissenting views being squelched" and nothing more. It's not like it was some neighborhood tavern with loud music that kept the neighbors up all nite after all. It really was more like a conversation inside a soundproof cabinet, inside a soundproof room. To hear it, you had to CHOSE to enter the soundproof room (the OT forum), then you had to CHOSE to enter the soundproof cabinet (the individual thread), and ONLY then could you tell what was being said. The gloaters went in there ranting, and when they could not get people to agree with them, they resorted to personal attacks, and when people responded in kind, they ran to the mods crying "foul". Well, the personal-attack specialists are still here, still gloating about having silenced any who dare to disagree with them. Meanwhile, the old OT regulars are quite happy and getting along marvelously with each other (even those with quite opposing views) in their new home. NO problems at all.