I wasn't offended: in fact if you'll read what I said, I congratulated the poster for his articulacy. I just found it hard to read for the lack of paragraph spacing, and was very polite, saying that I hoped he didn't mind my mentioning it. Is it an American thing to confuse a polite request with being offended? If I get offended at one thing more than any other, it's people, proponent or sceptic, who don't actually engage and carry on arguing in the same old way about the same old straw men. After a while, I just put them on ignore.
I was actually made a moderator, without my knowledge, near the start of the new forum. Then I noticed someone said that I could ignore people, but they couldn't ignore me. So I asked Alex to remove my moderator privileges, which mean that one can't be ignored. If people want to ignore me, then I want them to be able to.
Sure, if I owned this blog, there'd be a few people who would get permanently banned. But I'm far from being alone about that. You may not know that there was the secret haven on the old forum, and that private conversations go on in this forum where sceptics are lambasted. One thing about me is that I don't really get involved in such discussions: they're pointless. I just keep re-iterating the advice that if someone gets up your nose, you should just put them on ignore and they'll disappear.
As to Andy's style of moderation, well, he doesn't have to moderate at all and it's a pretty thankless task. You are aware that he has a lot on his plate, aren't you? Writing up his thesis and so forth?
Love ya ta bits too, FDR, but on this occasion you're out of line and haven't got your facts straight.