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David Kane wrote:
Am I not allowed to express a preference for *informed* discussion?

Doing so by calling other discussants ignorant will lead to the
opposite effect. That is, unless you think only your own views qualify
as "informed" discussion. However, I again was mistaken. I thought
newsgroups were not for the experts or the informed, necessarily, but
for everyone to come in and join a discussion in which they might have
interest and want to learn something.

No one is denying you the right to speak. But from where does your
expectation that your uninformed or misinformed opinions will
not be identified as such come? I certainly have no such
expectation.

As far as your alleged interest in having various scholastic issues
discussed, nobody is stopping you. Your first post proposed
"dissolving scholastic chess" in response to a post about mechanisms to
reduce risk to young chessplayers. Excuse me if to me your belated
interest in the issues (6 posts in) seems to be lacking a little credibility.

But make no mistake I am all in favor of informed discussion.