Belly, we just love a hypocrite.

“Threads have become personal message boards.”

Ahh, aren’t you just as guilty of posting off topic here? Come on now, don’t go making me defend pale! There would be no one left to argue with :)
It is possible to just ignore the posters you don’t like, or at least stop feeding them.

“I fear for our forum!”

Well Belly, if that’s all you’ve got to worry about then you’re doing OK.

Oh BTW, I am not ignoring anyone, just pre occupied at the moment.