[blackshoe]

First, I'd like to thank Uday for his recent post, and for deleting that message (I saw it, and was going to delete it myself, but I got ... distracted by something or other. When I got back, it was gone. )

It is not the policy of the IBLF to demean posters here, or to attempt to destroy their credibility without justification (if someone makes a post that is clearly not credible, I feel sure that we moderators won't be the only ones to say so). It is the policy of the IBLF to avoid flame wars whenever possible, even if that means locking threads, or deleting posts. Some ire is natural if you feel the moderators have not handled a problem well, or indeed have contributed to it, but escalating the problem is not the way to handle it. Whatever the reason behind them, posts escalating the problem will be dealt with as problem posts; the underlying original problem will be dealt with separately.

I would ask anyone who has a problem with any post here to let the moderators (David and I) know. We will deal with it as quickly and fairly as we can. If someone has a problem with one of the moderators, contact the other one. Hopefully we won't have much of that.