ABC-Sch:  "I know it's not easy, but certainly also not impossible. But just let the past be the past and move on from here on.

Value one another from here on into the future.
I am a strong believer in second chances, everyone deserves one.

So, just call a clean start and don't poke one another. I guess, that goes in both directions."

There really is an adult in the room!  Thank you.  The solution to these "Battle of the Network Egos" is quite simple, actually it is as easy as "ABC-Sch".  

Leb and FJ should both declare that each has won the war and now is the time for rebuilding the message board.

In the words of ABC-Sch:  "So, just call a clean start and don't poke one another."  Leb wins!  FJ wins!  We All win!

After the U.S. Civil War there was a process called "Reconstruction".  Certainly that process is subjected to some serious debate as to how successful it was, but in the long run the loser of the military conflict was rebuilt into the modern day industrialized South.  After WWII Europe was destroyed by the incomprehensible damage done as the Allies and the Axis powers fought it out on the European continent, but look at how Europe has been rebuilt from that devestation into the economic power house it is today.

The War of the Big Egos here on Agoracom's POET Hub serves no useful purpose.  Everyone knows that Leb and FJ have individual huge egos, and with good reason.  Their separate contributions here have been critical to the success of this Hub.  Think about what this Hub would be without the contributions of these two giants!

Giants that are now, for the sake of ego, acting like Lilliputians.  Hubris is a wasted effort not dissimilar to that that is expended in jousting at windmills.  

My solution:  Declaring FJ as Master of the Agoracom POET Hub and, at the same  time, declaring Leb as Official Bad Ass Emperor of All He Surveys. 

Give them both medals, have a big parade, let the band play wildly, have a huge party and then....

Start building back the structure each has tried to destroy with their own egotistical self promoting psycho-babel.

We need both of these Icons of Agoracom in order to continue with the high quality posts that have been so long contributed by both before their egos tainted that level of production.  We still need BOTH!  JMO, well, maybe, but just try and see what happens to this Hub if we were to lose both of these Giants transmogrified lately into Lilliputians. 

As an alternative to Kissing and Making Up we could always implore the Agoracom Administration to enforce Rule #2 for a change:

 2. DEROGATORY COMMENTS TOWARDS OTHERS - Calling another member an idiot, clown, stupid, dumb, moron or ##x%x# for brains is strictly prohibited.

Proposed:  Grow Up.  Shake Hands.  Come out supporting each others efforts to continue to make this the best Hub on Agoracom.  Acknowledge that Agoracom is better with the input of you both,  

Giant or Lilliputian?  Which is it going to be?  Time to ask yourselves that penetrating question. Inquiring readers want to know!

OK, I vented.  I feel better.  Now I can go back to just reading posts here.

Okiedo