I didn't say anything about whether we're better off or not without him. On balance, mu.

Hounded IS far off the mark. Sometimes, everyone telling you you're wrong isn't "groupthink" or "harrassment" or "hounding", it's "being wrong".

Ross is a clever bloke who, like all of us, periodically talks bollocks. He didn't like it when we told him that the bollocks he was talking was, actually, bollocks. (Debian, women, etc)

So he buggered off.

If you want to paint this community as having run him out of town, so to speak, you will not do it without me standing up and saying "No. That is not what happened".