"Anyone has the right to restrict, within reason, who replies and what answers the responders may provide, unless its eggregious or violates other Terms of Use."
-> Sorry, but that's not the case at all. As I told you in December, members are free to respond to any post they like, provided that said response does not violate the forum polices. It does not matter if you want them to respond or not; that's a freedom you cannot take away from them. You can, however, choose to ignore the responses.
"No user of this forum should be required to put up with open threats or chroncally-******** replies whether they are Moderator or not."
-> The replies to you from Bob, Mark, and myself have not been "chroncally-********," just not to your liking, and the only "threats" have been to enforce the forum policies. You could have privately PMed Bob asking that he not reply to your posts, but you chose instead to call Bob out in four separate threads, including the use of irrelevant ethnic slurs at one point. That serves no purpose but to flame Bob and derail the threads, which falls under the "Harassment and flaming" section of the forum policies and makes it less likely that you'll receive the polite, helpful replies you desire.
Bottom line: If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. Feel free to ignore replies at your discretion, but the forum policies will continue to be enforced as written/intended, not as you desire them to read.
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