He did hold some very strong views on the depressing direction of folk music, but that was just an opinion, one with which I was in general agreement.
"God knows what the playground bullies will do without him."....this was the problem, "The playground bullies" made a point of winding Jim up to attack another member on BS, another member who happened to hold a contradictory view on politics and who had the intellect to defend his view vigorously.
The answer to the dilemma of course would be to bring back Jim and ban the bullies, but forum politics makes such a solution impossible.