LindaH
The whole NG could be an exchange for people who love the culture to exchange the culture, but I have seen scores of people unable to endure Ned's senseless and nauseous barrage driven away.
Even in this thread one poster has given the most common response to Ned's rabid barking;
But I have seen the sweep of this NG's History, from when NEd and his gang ruled and pack hunted a single true blue who stood up to them, to when it became two, then three and eventually the true blues outnumbered Ned and the haters and defeated them in a public referendum on the NG's future. After that most of Ned's cronies gave up and left.
I forsee a time, very soon, when a nucleus of people interested in broad cultural dialogue simply killfile Ned and use this NG as it was intended.
Till then.... ;-)
"There were some gilded youths that sat along the barber's wall. there eyes were dull, their heads were flat, they had no brains at all;" To them the barber pbutted the wink, his dexter eyelid shut, "I'll make this bloomin' yokel think his bloomin throat is cut."