Off the top of my head, I liked the debate offered in posts by Wessex and Croix de Fer.

They may have gotten excited and out-of-line occasionally, but nothing that couldn't be dealt with by good counsel.

Well, it was more than just "occasionally" for Croix, and Matthew did warn him to tone it down several times.

It wasn't about WHAT Croix was saying, but about how he said it.  He was an obvious misogynist and was constantly making derrogatory comments to and about women ... at one point referring to them as "cows".  He was an immature loose cannon.  Any good points he may have made in his posts was far outweighed by his obnoxious attitude.  He spent too much time on secular boards and had some badly-infected thinking.

I think it's unfair to call women "cow" for an insult, because in my view, it's not one. If one has never had a beautiful, docile creature which is a family cow, I pity you. Ours was a beautiful, docile creature  you could cuddle with in a corner who "danced" to drums and loved her children (calves). Lots of personality and knew us by name.

That aside, ggreg would be a good poster to have back. Kinda before my time, but I remember seeing some intelligent, inspiring bits from him.

Let's not forget Hobbledehoy, although he could never get himself banned, of course! He went on his own volition, but he was a valuable poster.
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Sometimes I think to myself that I must request my husband to let you all know when I die so you can pray for me. But even before the event would be good. Thanks.

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Good ol' Hobbles. He must have posted about 3,000 rare book scans, and I doubt anyone had time to read them as fast as he put them up.
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But the fatal flaw in that project was, he used Photobucket for his source where he uploaded the images.
   Because he didn't have to. He (or anyone) can upload images directly onto the CI server, which Matthew maintains flawlessly;
   And for which service he garners our highest praise and doesn't get it often enough.
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Now, unfortunately, all those wonderful scans are LOST because Hobble's Photobucket account was deleted. I don't know why.
   It makes me think he might have died.
   CI was obviously a passion for him, and he wouldn't have let all those scans go down the tubes if he could have prevented that.
   So he must have been oppressed with money troubles to let his PB account go down. They charge a fee for membership.
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It sounded like he was frantically trying to preserve the books he wanted to share and did what he knew, without the foresight he needed.
    He mentioned having to "move" and seemed to be in a hurry to get scans posted before it was too late.
    Perhaps he was being evicted, and in such cases, personal property (like rare books) often get buried in a local landfill.

First things first, I would like to wish all of you a happy 2019 filled with God's grace and His abundant blessings.

Second of all, you're basically admitting that you're Croix, Quid. It went from "maybe you're Croix de Fer" to "He's definitely Croix de Fer". 

That's not good.

Way to infuse sanctimonious false piety with derision.

#effeminate

#soy

#immature

#bitter_incel

#bitter_incel

You wish. Tell that to my chicks of yore. Are you jealous? Sounds like it.

Seriously, why was gladius veritatis banned? When I knew him I thought he was super SSPX.

I like the highly articulate members who also weren't pansies. I was never a fan of Hobbledehoy, considering him Judaized and hiding behind a holy shtick, and outright Judaizers and possible cryptos such as ggreg, who didn't even try to hide it.

JohnGrey, Graham, Claudel, Raoul76, Caminus, PilgrimageofGrace, Ethelred, PereJoseph, Telesphorus ... those are the types I find are missing. They probably have high IQs. BTNYC is the only person posting recently of that caliber.

Croix's a bit overrated by some here. I, like him, was once attacked by the bulk of regular ABLF members, including the mods and owner, for exposing feminism on that forum. Even Telesphorus attacked me, of all people. I used only Catholic sources to make my points, whereas Croix used lots of Jєωy sources, which compromised him. Feminism also isn't run by women, it's Marxism applied to gender. Female femininsts are merely the faces of the movement. The brains and money behind feminism has always been Jєωιѕн men. It's as patriarchal as anything else.