well, I have made my feelings known personally to Geoff on that specific issue, but here I only will comment on the general.

People come, people go, and interminable discussion of what we are, and what we do here, gets somewhat boring. Let's talk (preferably with language as the main focus) as long as we are mutually interested, and desist when not.

In other ways I agree with Bingley and Max. and FWIW, I personally find sanctimony and puffed up grandiloquence as off-putting as rudeness, which is often in the eye of the beholder