"thing is Steve Harris, surely one way to deal with people doing what you say Steve at seered is doing is to simply and honestly answer the question in a factual way"

You say "the question" as if there was just one and no more would be forthcoming!

"And his main complaint that I've seen seems to be 'nobody will answer my questions'"

Yes, that crops up several times on his site. He's had that problem with Devon County Council, Tessa Jowell MP and now the Sidmouth Folk Week crowd!

"so if his questions got answered then he wouldn't have anything to complain about would he?"

What do you think? :-)