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Suppose college admissions was like seat-belt laws (bear with me). People might have some questions about them, they can be a bit nebulous and vary from location to location, and it's a reasonable topic of conversation at certain points in your life. It's a topic of some worth to society, but on the whole, not a crucial aspect of our existence. Fair enough?
Most posters on this board and and the rest of CC tend to be like informational websites or hotlines, telling you that your kid has to be in a seatbelt if he's under X years old, or you can't do this or have to do that, but in a fairly straightforward, informative manner.
Moderators on this board are like the cops who stop you and give you a ticket if you're violating seatbelt laws. Harsh, perhaps, but performing a necessary function, without necessarily taking pleasure in it.
Columbia2002 would be like if a guy was wandering the streets, going up to cars who are stopped at stoplights, and screaming in rage at everyone who he spotted who wasn't wearing a seatbelt. I mean, really working up a lather, foaming at the mouth, over the simple situation of someone not wearing a seatbelt. On the face of it, he's right, but it doesn't affect anyone but the violator. So, he's still a jerk, of questionable mental stability, who nobody would want to have at a party of theirs. Plus, where the heck is he getting all this time to wander the streets in search of the violators of seatbelt laws? Isn't he employed? One thing we can all agree on is that he's taking what should be simple matters and taking them way too freaking seriously.
Thus concludes my brilliant analogy.
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