In my defence I would have never started a thread in the
Open Forum because I never go there. I am in self-imposed exile in the
Economics and Finance Forum. When it used to be
Depletion Economics I used to moderate almost every post. And I was able to move off-topic posts elsewhere. But since it became
Economics and Finance the number of new posts exploded with very few of them having anything to do with post peak oil resource depletion, so I gave up any pretense of trying to moderate them all. Of course, it is my own opinion that quality has given way to quantity, but whatever, now
hironegro can criticise me for posting Dilbert whereas before he had absolutely nothing of merit to say about real economics and finance. I am just trying to be inclusive. You know, dumb it down a little.

The organized state is a wonderful invention whereby everyone can live at someone else's expense.