Let me join the chorus: please do not leave in protest; your comments here do some of the same positive things that Said’s comments do, and your leaving would have a bunch of the negative consequences of Said’s banning without the positive ones (because, at least so it seems to me, you are much less annoying than Said).
(For the avoidance of doubt, I find you a net-positive commenter here for reasons other than that you do some of the useful things Said has done, but that particular aspect seems the most relevant on this occasion.)
Let me join the chorus: please do not leave in protest; your comments here do some of the same positive things that Said’s comments do, and your leaving would have a bunch of the negative consequences of Said’s banning without the positive ones (because, at least so it seems to me, you are much less annoying than Said).
(For the avoidance of doubt, I find you a net-positive commenter here for reasons other than that you do some of the useful things Said has done, but that particular aspect seems the most relevant on this occasion.)