I’m turning in my keys as moderator and general member to the forum. Participating has lost its enjoyment and entertainment value. This solely due to one person’s incessant maniacal behavior and the administrator’s unwillingness to help me put a cap on it.

No one person has single-handedly divided the 968 community and chased away good technically competent people because of his un-throttled arrogance and intolerance of people who disagree with him. Not withstanding his constant thread hijacking with diversions that elaborate on his needs, and thoughts about what he is thinking or doing - to the exclusion of the originator of the post and the original question. That is a guarantee to alienate new members right off the bat, and irritate the rest of us.

Talking and coaching have done no good, and the admin won’t let me ban him or meter his posts as a disciplinary action, so I am out. No one else here needs moderation because the rest of us have a desirable personality trait called self-control.

A healthy forum encourages diversity and participation from all levels of experience. To do this requires a level of interaction akin to a cocktail party. People engaging in polite conversation. Preposterous advice, extreme opinion and general argument are avoided.
Unfortunately I have seen many capable members come and go because of disgust at these very behaviors.

This is unfortunate because this poor little car needs all the help it can get and with a fairly narrow gene pool of experience, the resultant knowledge base that is generated is equivalent to an inbred imbecile. As long as this situation exists, all this forum can ever hope to be is a private channel that nurtures one person’s megalomania, while the rest of us cringe and bear it.


I can no longer tolerate it, so it is hasta la vista baby. So long and thanks for all the fish.

Dave G.