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Think about it: anyone with simplistic thinking or strong emotion (emotion stronger than reasoning ability) is already sedevacantist. Almost all of those who are more prudent, educated, circuмspect, practical minded, etc. went with the SSPX (a thin sliver of these educated, prudent, non-hothead types became sedevacantist -- these are the sedevacantists you find on CathInfo, for the most part).

Matthew, although I appreciate that you feel this way about those of us who post here, how do you know that most sedevacantists aren't just like those of us who post here?  I.e. Educated, prudent, not-hothead types, etc?  Every Catholic I know took the sedevacantist position after much research, thought and prayer.

I've met many over the years. 

Let's set all the sedevacantists you and I know aside for the moment. Let's take a group of people who ARE emotional (emotion can be anger, frustration, disgust, etc.), and/or who like a clear-cut, cut-and-dried, simple solution. I assure you such people exist, and many of them are Catholic, and some are even Trad. Now which position are they likely to gravitate towards? I'd say Sedevacantism.

Perhaps sedevacantists are just another example of the 90% rule -- 90% of everything is crap. 90% of music, 90% of movies, 90% of books, 90% of Catholics are Catholic in name only, 90% of Trads are worldly and ignorant, 90% of websites are completely worthless, etc...

Even if CathInfo had 200 good sedevacantists (I doubt it's that many), that would still be 0 to 5% of the total.

Matthew could care less about that.

He has said so many times.

Just because I love and defend the truth doesn't mean I ban everyone who disagrees with me on this or that topic.

Loving truth, in the context of a forum owner, doesn't mean creating an "echo chamber" forum. I'm not interested in running a micro-forum and/or echo chamber. I'll leave others to that.

I'll run the BIG forum people keep coming back to, even when they hate it. (I'm sure you can relate to that.) CathInfo is the forum people post on when they want to raise money for a young widow with children, or get signatures to protest the latest sacrilege, or seek advice about a very specific situation -- in short, the forum where the people are.

And I want CathInfo to be a discussion forum where you can, well, discuss! ...and without having to look over your shoulder constantly for a ban hammer.

All that having been said, everyone who's been on CI for longer than 3 weeks knows I don't tolerate everyone or everything here. That wouldn't even be possible. There are some who simply won't live in peace with anyone who disagrees with them about anything. They go off on anyone and everyone, and produce nothing good but annoy everyone. And anyone who considers the forum to be a den of non-Catholics is quickly shown the door. Anyone who thinks the Catholic Church was rotten long before Vatican II (a.k.a. "malcontents" or "anti-Catholics") are also not welcome here. Dimond Brothers fans pretty much have to keep their opinion to themselves if they value their CI membership... And most Pfeifferites, due to having "learned from the best", can't get along with other Catholics and are quick to excommunicate all and sundry who aren't part of their cult.

And that's to say nothing of anyone who is manifestly heretical, such as the Manichean heretic "heitanen" who believes sex (even between married persons) is dirty or bad. He has a whole website with a lot of content spouting his heresies, complete with a whole page castigating me by name (after I banned him, of course).

Like I said...CathInfo is plenty moderated. I wish I had a nickel for every one I had to ban. But just about every one of them was practically *begging* for it, that's the funny thing. With a few exceptions (I am human after all), "when in doubt I don't ban".

P.S.
Click on the latest member to join -- member #5887. And yet CI only has 3347 (non-banned) members. The remainder were either trimmed from the database (years ago, when I was trying to make the site run faster -- these were defunct accounts obviously) and/or they were banned over the years. It just goes to show you how "many are called, but few are chosen."

CathInfo is not a free-for-all. It's just the best Trad forum out there, both free (as in beer) and free (as in liberty).