I guess ultimately I don't understand why some people feel the urge to make things out to be some sort of patsfans.com illuminati. Despite all of my diverse experiences in this world I confess to being naive in a lot of ways, maybe this is one, but I genuinely think the idea of cliques here is not supported by the evidence. What evidence, you ask? Look at all the people who are mega posters on this forum who will sometimes get into tiffs with each other.
I'm genuinely comforted by the fact that I agree and disagree in roughly equal parts with all the extremely active posters here. It undermines the entire notion of various cliques. This isn't the WWE. I agree with Kontra on several things and think he's a subhuman idiot on other things and I am positive he feels the same about me - assuming I even register as worthy of thought to him.
This is the best forum I've ever been to and I think Ian is a genuinely Good Person who tries his best to facilitate this community. Do I like that he doesn't let me talk about gay sex parties and politics? Not really, but I respect the ever loving **** out of him not because I'm a boot licker but because in every single interaction I've ever had with him he's proven himself to be a genuine human being of extremely high caliber and I don't think someone of the moral fiber of Ian would suffer cliques like some sort of WWF stables....