While I appreciate your opinion, you have NO knowledge of what is going on because it has been happening behind the scenes.
Also, don't jump to conclusions there 1) you have NO idea how many hours I have spent reading the archives of this website, how many more I have been lurking on and for how long, nor how many varied publications I have read/subscribed to over the last decade or so concerning the subjects of renewable energy, PV/wind/hydro electricity etc... 2) you have absolutely no idea of how many hundreds of dollars that I have spent with Otherpower.com over the last twelve months so don't assume you know the weight of my "needs" and 3) there is absolutely no way you can even give a remotely intelligent guess as to whether a person is hyperactive or not by reading a post on the computer. Don't assume you know somebody just because you jumped into the middle of a conservation that you do not have the facts on.
Also for the record, you do not know anything about the last place I worked which by the way was a cogeneration steam/electricity plant. I generated LARGE quantities of electricity using generators that are larger than the average house for a living! So do not treat me like I am some dumb hippy teenager that just decided to log onto this website to ask a bunch of goofy questions to fill this weeks "flavor of the month" for something to learn about. Although if that were the case, the reception received here would definitely not have perpetuated a long term interest. It sure would not have furthered the R.E. cause and in tern would have hurt us all. As to my current profession, I am a general contractor. A builder that adds R.E. in some form to every project I do, be it a 2500 sq. ft. home or a 35,0000 sq. ft. strip-mall. I am trying to get more people interested in R.E. and make it a normal thing in peoples day-to-day lives. So do not patronize me with your soap box speeches. I am not here for a social call as you so eloquently inferred, I am here to 1) gain knowledge and 2) develop business relationships and if I make a friend or two in the process, GREAT! I definitely believe common courtesy to be appropriate in either.
Now, since you obviously want in on what is going on, what happened is I asked some questions that I had that 1) that I could receive an answer 2) to perpetuate dialogue and 3) to give back and not just take from the board by lurking. These questions kept disappearing, so I would repost. Again they disappeared. All the while no one has said a thing to me as to why. So I read the "rules" to see if I am posting something not allowed, no problem there but my posts are still disappearing. Now you tell me at this point how deleting my post is helping anything? That's right it's not. If the person deleting my post would have simply e-mailed me privately, or replaced the post with a note explaining what was going on instead of me thinking there must be some sort of glitch then I could have gone from there but no instead we get comments like "Frankly, I would rather resign the post as an Editor than explain my actions to anyone except maybe DanB who owns the board." Personally, I think that is a little excessive. And as for an apology, what would I need to apologize for? If this is a business forum, I walked into the store with a question and look at the response, that make a body want to further a business relationship here. You're dead right, an apology IS in order, but somehow I bet I never get one.
Good day...