After considering what some have posited here, I've done extensive research and have found no forum parameters to create a clique, make this a private forum or filter out serious discussions.
If someone can give me hard evidence of these forum parameters I will gladly retract my statement.
As a former host (for the briefest of time) I've determined that they are just people subject to the same foibles as any of the other folk here. Do they all fit somewhere on my personal scale of -10 to +10, yeah they do. But so what? All of the folk here also fit somewhere on that scale too. The closer anyone gets to -10, the more I simply ignore them. Easy-Peasy.