Robo - the person you mention is capable of making serious, intelligent, valid points - no arguement about that...

But you need to appreciate the history of how he has undermined his own credibility
and alienated so many other mudcatters,
with years of his persistent obsessive divisive self-indulgent posting patterns...

He has wrecked too many threads and over stretched the patience and goodwill
of a significant cross section of other mudcatters...

I respect your effort to stand up for him,
but suggest it is misplaced if you do not really know the extent of his negative behaviour over such a very long time.