Quote - Wiz, I think it's reasonable to suggest that after 14 pages the OP's question has been answered, and the only contributors who remain are the ones interested in the new direction the discussion is taking. I think that's a perfectly natural thing, it happens in real life conversations too. > Quote - This subject has been beaten to death in countless threads before, and it almost always ends badly.

I would say that 95% of the topics discussed here have been beaten to death in countless threads before, and many have ended badly, but if we were to avoid or outlaw discussion of all those old or potentially-contentious topics we'd be left with a few OT threads and a few 'What hair is this' threads and not much else. Perhaps the main purpose of forums is to revive old subjects and then beat them to death again in new threads?

I'm just letting those who want to go there that they had best play nicely.

I get so tired of locking the same threads over and over and over.