Whaa?
It is true. I was surprised too when I found out, but I think we have something like a dozen academics who regularly post on this forum. I also know of one doctor and two lawyers (including you).
Oh yeah, you have Will Shryver. I'll credit you him.
LOL! I'm sure you and virtually ever other Mormon would love to "credit" us one of the most embarrassing apologists ever to defend the Church. But we both know Will Schryver is a product of the MAD board. He never comes here to debate, he only shows up on occasion to call us names and brag about something that's usually never going to happen.
And, yes, I really do think the creep factor is the problem over here. People who don't have sufficient people skills to withstand a banning.
The only person I know who is like that is Droopy, who we both know is one of your own. He is the one who ran over here to complain about MAD after they banned him, and he is one of the most die-hard apologists you'll ever see.
Look at poor Consigleri, obviously a smart fellow, who kept his faithless sarcasm in tow for a long, long time before being kicked off for something mean-spirited.
I don't know mush about him. Wasn't he recently banned for starting a thread on the NAMI's castigation of Will Schryver? That hardly seems "mean spirited" to me. In fact, most of what you and those mods call mean spirited is really innocuous when compared to some of their attacks on apostates. I mean for crying out loud, they are still calling the lot of us "traitors" and "apostates" and "covenant breakers" etc, and their king Mod is accusing the entire community of something that one person did. Mean-spirited maybe? Not when those being attacked are the people on this forum. It is a double-standard.
His mental collapse obviously occurred, as he explained, when he was not permitted to teach Gospel Doctrine any more. Will wonders never cease
So? You give me consig and I raise you a Seattle Ghost Writer. You give me Scratch and I'll raise you a William Schryver. You give me Dr.Cam and I'll raise you a Pahoran. We can do this all day, and I guarantee you MAD comes out on the short end of the stick. But the fact remains the posters here are far more intelligent and well mannered as a whole. MAD seems to be overwhelmed by a growing number of rather ignorant amateurs. The more informed folks are making their presence scarcer each year.
And of course some of what we do here is entertain ourselves by sharing excerpts from such threads, and laugh at their expense. I know, it probably pisses off the mods there, but that's one of the consequences of running a forum like that.