Muledeer, I know exactly what you mean.. I actually have a few friends that will not join this site, specifically because of Senkat himself. In fact, that exact thing is what got me the two week ban in the first place.. but that's in the past. It is a shame that Senkat has ruined yet another opportunity for the good people on this site
My reasoning for not taking this to PM can be summed up in the very first reply to this topic, by Senkat himself. I emailed him, thru his own website, not even on LPF, and he has chosen twice now to make some of the email's subject matter public. If I took this to PM, he would just blast it out in the open on the forum anyhow :-/
I would talk to your friends, and reassure them that not everyone on this site is an ass. I usually am not this way, as can be seen by leafing through the forum and reading most of my 200-some posts. I have been helpful in any way that I can in my posts, and have actually left Senkat alone since I have been back, until he jumped into my for sale thread and trashed me. From then on, I think anyone who gets stuck reading this senseless flame war should at least know the truth of what Senkat really is
. I will not however, jump in and trash anyone else's threads, no matter how much I feel the need to tell Senkat to go * himself