Dave the Gnome, I think you are a good person and I generally enjoy what you have to say.

Whether you conspired with Steve and Musket in private or not, you did join in their months and months of mocking of me and my religion. I certainly understand your point that the same thing repeated enough times can get very tedious. Imagine it all being aimed specifically at you, going on whether you are reading it or not and with third parties gleefully joining in.

Imagine how many times Steve Shaw has called me a mocking name? Imagine how tired I am of that.

I am not calling to "mommy." If you haven't noticed by now, no one comes when I call.

I am trying to convince Steve that there are rules to this forum which are a good idea that we all should learn and abide by. That Max wrote those rules and that if he is grateful to Max for this forum then he should indeed respect the rules.

Steve saying, that pete deserves to be vilified, calling this a "pointless" forum, saying that he has never insulted anyone and continuing to rant at people and call them names indicates to me that I have a long and daunting quest ahead of me. But I am not going to stop until Mr. Shaw stops "vilifying" people (his word) or finds somewhere else to do it.

You telling me that repeatedly telling the rules to someone who hasn't learned them is rude (in your opinion) is not going to deter me.

Steve is stubbornly asking for this treatment. He asks for it every time he is rude and unkind, which on these threads is pretty much every time he posts. I told you before, I'll tell you again, if you want it to stop. You have a much higher likelihood of making that happen by working on Steve.