there are enough blowhard soapbox prophets around without encouraging more
Hazcon, sometimes it's the responses to those nebulous, ephemeral rants about nothing that turn out to be the most thought-provoking and worthwhile posts on here -- serving to educate both the original poster and others. And the thought that maybe you might get an "attaboy" once in a while from the mods might help to elicit more than standout posts. I know it used to, or so it seemed.