Since I haven't followed the board except for a few minutes over the last several days, I had no idea who or what was going on.

The reason I began to lurk wa that I think that about 50-70% of the posts over the last couple of weeks were off topic and could have been deleted.

I did see that Agora stepped up to the plate and made some additional comments oin the off topic issue, tells me that I was correct in my assumption.