[Dakota]

For at least as long as this thread is allowed to survive, just a word in defense of the board admin and moderator.

This is, fundamentally, a commercial board. While part of the reason it exists is no doubt magnanimous, there is no doubt is it also used in part to entice those of us in the sports officiating "community" to buy their product (the on-line magazine) and the other products advertized here.

Once a thread tips over the line from discussion to "real-life" retribution (specifically using the board to have an official's credentials withdrawn - an act, as I said elsewhere that places more shame on the one who pursued that punishment than on the one being punished), I think it is entirely correct for the board moderator to pull the thread down.