[DanielDudley]

Here's a suggestion. If you are posting about a topic that is going to draw PARFers like honey, post it over in PARF. It is all well and good to say that everything was fine until the thread devolved (just like it would in PARF), but I expect that there was a 100% chance of that happening from the moment the topic was posted.

If you post certain topics, you have to expect that there will be other people from PARF who will also be interested in coming over to regular OT to post in it. You know which ones will do it, we all know which ones. That is a given. The point is that you can't expect different results just because it is a new thread. I would be willing to bet there is an Epstein thread in PARF right now.

You know where these threads belong. If you start such a thread, you created the result as much as anyone else, And You Should Know Better. Parf topics are going to draw Parf responses even if no PARFer responds. But there will never be a day when a PARF topic fails to draw PARF regulars. Build it, and they will come.

Stop pointing fingers and take it upon yourself to do the right thing. Don't come up with a brilliant retort to my post, that would be missing the point, which is pretty obvious.