Well, I cannot speak for TomW, or Kurt but from what I witnessed there are many things that were kind of behind the scenes, or not very obvious to most, that gave good reason for TomW's statements. I do not believe Tom had said anyhting to be hostil or directly disrespectful.
Take into account TomW spent countless hours monitoring this board, viewing much more than most any other average user.
He would try to control trolls, blatent profiteering, floods, and any number of attacks.
Both TomW and Kurt would be subject to attacks , via e-mail bombing, disrespectfull posts, personaly attacking either of them, and numberous other things, including using religion based slang attacks (in effect if someone were to call me a satan worshiper) or proving theories when put on the spot with answers involving religion, or or bordering on threat. All this, for "censoring", or otherwise changing, moving, hiding or deleting a post that REALLY does not belong.
As a side thought, religion is a personal matter and all should be free to follow his/her own but not forced onto others.
These attacks were just basically proof that the person subject to the attack had good reason, for whatever they did as a editor. If someone would resort to these tactics it sorta proves they cant handle a resonable and intelligent conversation.
Again, I canot speak for anyone, but when you spend the amount of time reading as many posts as one of the editors have, carried the burdons of being an editor, without the ability to speak your mind, plus to be targets as such, most reasonable persons would have similar opinions.
Many knowlegdable persons here have gained that knowledge through a LOT of hard work, and experience, and many love to spread the knowledge. But even I have witnessed the decline of questions and responces that are thought out and asked in a semi researched and intelligent way. This puts off the impression of just being a user, or trying to get a free or easy ride.
Kinda rubs some people the wrong way
Personaly I do not think that a lot of the innocent questions are the biggest problem anyone has raised, though it does after time become an annoyance. To me it's more the responces from those who THINK they know everything , and are argumentive and destructive to an civil intelligent exchange of information. I have seen much information posted that is just wrong , and when faced with a correction get hostile.
Flaming is just not cool here...
Anyways just how I see it .
Wolv