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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

For what it's worth, when I saw Leon's request that skydash e-mail him about choosing an auction house, my first thought was that skydash was going to hear a sales pitch for Mastro. I base that soley on what I view as Leon repeatedly going to the mat for Mastro and seemingly becoming emotionally involved while defending that company when negative posts were made. And I know Leon has argued to the contrary that he treats all the advertisers the same, and that's fine. My perception differs from what he's saying, but hey, maybe that's a shortcoming on my part. I honestly don't get too worked up over it.

That being said, I'm amazed that Leon waited so long to ban Jay and don't blame him a bit.

One other thing: I shake my head that when certain threads reach a certain length, someone will post a plea to Leon to lock it. And how some people complain so vehemently when contentious threads that aren't soley related to cardboard have a long shelf life. What's the big deal? You have to know 20-30 posts in just what a thread is about and where it's headed. If it bugs you, ignore it ... don't click on it! How hard is that? When I see a topic about "What's Stan Musial's rookie card?" or "What would you do with Barry Bonds' home run ball?" I know they don't interest me, so I don't read them. Again ... how hard is it to do that? If a topic has 150-plus posts, it must be interesting to quite a few folks. But just because a person doesn't like it or in their mind it's lived long enough, he calls for it to be locked? I don't get it.