I was rather saddened by the twist of the original thread: it managed to degrade into accusations, venting of frustrations etc.
This should serve as a lesson to all of us: this Forum is for exchange of information about swords. Personal frustrations and scores should be vented and settled outside the Forum, ie through personal messages. There is no need to inflame everybody by airing one's personal laundry in public.
We forget how good we have here: we can say whatever we want (withing the boundaries of customary politeness), enjoy very little censorship and do not have to suffer from personal whims of some neurotic twit with a title of Grang Moderator.
Let's all calm down, take several very deep breaths and come to our senses.
E-bay is a nasty place, and we all got burned on more than one occasion. E-snipe is a sneaky tool and we all got hit by it. Both of them are legal; neither of them will go away and all of us shall continue to use them.
Just let us keep this Forum clean of all extraneous considerations. This is a lovely place to learn, to teach and just to argue. I would hate to see people leave and the Forum wither.
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