Hmm -- I see you kicked out Barry and deleted his posts.

I moderate two tribes myself, and that's not the course of action I would have taken. You are, of course, entitled to what action you see fit -- I won't debate your right to do that.

Barry is indeed an insufferable, arrogant know-it-all who is so oblivious to the feelings and opinions of others that he might even have Asperger Syndrome. But the tribe was already dealing with him in your absence. For you to come along like a belated parent after the kids have fought kind of assumes that we -- as adults -- can't take care of our own problems.

To Barry's credit, he was always polite, and never engaged in name-calling or ad hominem attacks. His major failing is the inability to acknowledge other points of view, or the subjective experiences of our individual migraines. Which means he comes off like a jerk.

But debate isn't always about making friends, or agreeing with people. Like many others here, I told Barry how I felt about his one-sided debating style. And there was certainly growing consensus that it sucked. But I still feel that his obvious shortcomings were no more obnoxious than many people in many other tribes I'm in.

Perhaps others here feel he needed to be deleted -- I'm not saying I speak for anyone but myself. But I would have kept him around. Look at it this way -- he generated more activity in this tribe than you may have ever had. How is that bad?