As many of you, I have spent considerable time on many modeling forums (froii?) in the past. I rarely visit others these days, primarily because they are too often cliqueish, leavened with irrelevant and often hostile threads and comments, and to all appearances run by an "in group" of sometimes arrogant people. I spent a few years as a moderator on a forum with 10,000 registered members and it took six of us to keep it reasonably courteous. We all finally resigned.
All this is to say that it is no easy task to have a decent, courteous, and helpful forum in a contentious arena. And, in my experience, it is the members who are the real moderators of good forums and this one is a fine example of that.
On a personal note, while i was going through my cancer treatments and plodding away at my Wingnut Wings Roland C.II, this forum, you members, were a small community part of my life and recovery.
Thank you all.