I remember when BE had his last set of well publicised legal troubles there were a couple of posters who were regularly in the thread about it ... and pretty much no others ... and they were quite well informed - far more so than the average round here.... and since the case ended they have buggered off never to return.
I also remember one year when the crisis in Bahrain was hot and one guy joined the forum a few weeks before the race - and claimed he was in Bahrain and that everything was fine ... and that BE was a humanitarian who did a lot of behind the scenes charity work behind the scenes ... he even suggested that he knew BE personally. Then once the Bahrain race was out the way he buggered right off, again never to be seen again.
Recently, I said something I should not have said about a well known journalist - and to my extreme surprise I got a message from him telling me to put up or shut up.... I chose to shut up - I comment for fun, he does it for a living and so deserves more respect than I had shown him.
So what am I saying .... on some topics we should be conscious of what were are saying - more people pay attention to what we say here than we realise.... which is not to say we should not speak freely, but just that we should also realise that there is a bigger context to some topics.... and also we should be wary of PR firms and persons with real world agendas making use of the forum.
Carry on ...