And I get irritated when points that I've made get ignored.

If so Ivor and for the sake of your blood pressure - I would question if you really are posting in the right place?

I take your point to be - that I am part of the problem?

Possibly, but that rather depends on what you think what the problem is that I am part of.

On one level - (in the face of some posters who appear to think they have some right to try all sorts of tactics to prevent this) - being able to continue posting my views and for others to be able to do this on our forum, is an end in itself.

It is difficult to see how I could solve this problem by NOT posting to our forum at all or posting only (more acceptable) views that would not be subject to the tactics I refer to.