(there is a "shadow" link left in RDF if anyone wants to continue the conversation)
Phill,

My reason for transferring it was that it was about a particular person and was not on any subject other than that person.

The only other post like it (which I did not transfer) was the one addressed to Steve(i). The only reason why I did not transfer that one was because it was an apparent reply to something in another thread.

I think it is important to keep the integrety of RDF (although perhaps I have been negligent in the past) to maintain it as a Debate forum for "subjects" rather than people and their style of posting.

As far as I can, I will be enforcing the ONE rule, though I will allow a bit of slack on it (retaliation without thread breakage). I think I have been too "soft" in the past and feel that it is time to be a bit of a hardnose about thread disruption. Things have gone too far in the direction of anarchy, and I think it is time to get things back to debate instead of the aparent "free-for-all" that has ensued.

I feel so strongly about this that I might, as a !last! resort delete posts .. (but will NOT edit posts - because that may lead to accusations of changing the contents). If it becomes necessary to delete a post in the middle of a thread, then it will be replaced with a comment as to why it has been deleted.

The topic breakage (as Mac would put it) is becoming too expensive.

John

Please excuse strange "!" symbols for emphasis - ezcodes are still not working for me at present.