Several weeks ago, Shortwave, you said you were going to be absent from
the group until September or so. Many people opined that your absence
would be a loss, and few would have disagreed with them.

So in your first emergence, in early June, you post an OT and
controversial topic "just to see if certain people would react as I
predicted they would" (and are you surprised?) and you then proceed to
fan the flames while the thread wanders off into a variety of other
controversial and political subjects and the tone gets progessively
more "meaner-neener".

I guess that in those weeks that you weren't here you were unable to
notice that most posters (no, certainly not all) are making a
deliberate effort to avoid trolling through the group.

So welcome back. I'm personally looking forward to the insightful
comments on boating issues that are generally more typical of your
contributions to rec.boats.

I suppose that throwing gasoline on a fire is good practice if what you
hope to create is an increase in flame. From you, that's surprising and
somewhat disappointing.