Let's be perfectly clear...there are a lot of people that come to this site for the crap. Before I started reading the boards, I came here twice in a year. Once to find a maid and once to find a support group. I was not a paying memeber. I didn't provide enough traffic to benefit the business members. It wasn't until I developed my girl crush on NC, found my fashionista advice with Shangrila, developed my distain for rednecks, etc. that I was at all invested, monitarily or otherwise, in pcom.
My point, if Pubby went all drama free, he'd lose a ton of traffic. My hunch is that he knows th