But then again, any apologist that makes a difference got a bashing here. It is just the way it is.
This is easily refuted by a cursory examination of those we do and do not criticize.
Don't you ever wonder why Robert F, or Ben M, or Kevin B, or any number of LDS apologists (who are far more scholarly) at MAD/Maxwell are never criticized over here? It is because they do not go on the offensive and attack us first. It is really that simple.
The one thing Will, Dan, Bill, Pahoran, etc have in common is their infatuation with bashing apostates. They love to attack us publicly on a forum where they know we won't be able to respond. They lie. They deceive. And they need to be exposed, especially when they are targeting specific individuals who have the right to defend themselves by telling their side. I can't name how many times I had to post a response to Dan over at MAD because he started a thread about me totally misrepresenting what I said. And when I did that, I was always respectful towards him, and then the moderators would come shut down the thread and/or ban me in the process, because they can't have their precious scholars being made out to be fools. This rat pack of misfit apologists you love to defend so much, if they're not singling us out individually, they're referring to this forum in a broad sense, as the cesspool, the apostate forum, the spacious trailer park, etc.
So that is the common denominator these guys all share. It isn't that they've "made a difference." Just what in the hell has Will Schryver done for apologetics besides like and make a mockery of Mormonism? His sole claim to fame is his well refuted cipher nonsense. That didn't last long now did it.
You have to be a real piece of Samsonite to sit there and insist William Schryver has done nothing to bring this on himself.