We've learned in the past that if we don't merge threads then people feel free to starat a brand new thread on whatever thought pops in their head and we end up with 15 different threads from 15 different posters who all feel the need to make their own individual keynote speech. Experience has taught us that those multiple threads are far more detrimental to the board than the occasional longish thread.
Actually Tips, since we deal with so many posters I have no recollection of the incident you're referring to. Although if there were multiple trollish posts starting false rumors from a single account, I'm not surprised I sent you a knock it off or leave message. I also have a hard time understanding how I "didn't believe a word you were saying" when you admittedly weren't saying anything because you didn't want to rat out your buddy.
I apologize if you felt that I've harbored some sort of grudge against you; considering that I don't even recall the incident, I have no ill feelings toward you whatsoever and have actually enjoyed many of your posts. In the future, if you feel I've done wrong by you, please feel free to tell me about it instead of holding it in for years. You seem like a decent fellow and I have no doubt the discussion would have been 100X more reasonable than the vitriol us janitors catch sometimes.
Whatever your worry is/was, you can let it go bro cuz there's no worries on this end.
Oh, the irony of catching one across the bow from out of nowhere while I was actually typing an apology to Tipster....
Example # 3,974 of the insults I was referring to.