I think personal insults should be avoided. My very good friend is not the only one engaged in that sort of activity. You do it regularly. Moriarty does it even more regularly and then whines about it when it is returned to him, granted usually in an escalated manner. I do it as well.
Are incomplete research, poor analysis and false conclusions a reason to act the way we do? Perhaps not. But those causes should be avoided at all cost. They are not.
I don't care if you think I'm on a soap box or not. I think there is something structurally wrong with this site and I said so. If this is an open forum, why are you telling me to get off my soap box? If I can disagree with you and respond with corrections, why do you have a problem with me doing so towards Ran. Is he exempt? According to your own post, you should shut up and let me have my say.
You and Moriarty are dangerous researchers and you harm this site. I still believe you are not doing so deliberately, though you strain my credulity at times. You and Moriarty have printed things on this site that make no sense, that have no underpinnings in fact and make conclusions that are historically inaccurate.
I object to this site allowing this to happen in any case. I suggest to Ran that he comes to Philadelphia on his way north and sits down with whomever cares to show up to have a roundtable discussion on ways to improve this site. Fine, MacWood. You like this site just how it is. You are a fool. All it has become is a platform for you to spout your revisionist BS. Most on here around the world have no idea whether you are right or not. You shovel so many names, dates and seemingly connected facts that most acquiesce and believe you. Well, when you start to issue garbage in areas of golf architecture history that I have studied, know better than you and can present evidence that upends your crap, you better believe I feel an obligation, even though it is extremely time consuming, to counter your nonsense.
Moriarty keeps asking us to present our evidence. We will do so on our timetable, not his. We will present first to the clubs. We will then ask them for permission to present the archival material. If they allow us to do so, we will. If not, we won't. You should try giving clubs such consideration, you may be better accepted. Tom Paul was taken to task for offering to show Jeff a paraphrase of the proof we have that demonstrates the errors of your and Moriarty's ways. Moriarty went on the offensive as if Tom was showing him the raw data. I showed Tom Naccarato the files, I showed them to Mike Cirba, to Peter Pallotta and members of MCC and MGC. We are not hiding anything or protecting any legends. We are going about our business. You are excluded now and forever more. If the clubs want to share the information with you or Mike Hurdzan does, that's fine with me. I'll never give it to either one of you directly.
Unless this site improves, we will not present it here either, even if given permission by MCC and MGC. Ran and Ben must take steps to ensure this does not happen again.
So shut up and let me have my say. You have harmed this site and harmed your reputation. You may not mind, but since I've seen evidence that my reputation is harmed by association with you through this site, I do care.
I want change. I want this site to be better. I want you to change and be better at what you so obviously are passionate about.