Leo Caesius
Banned
Indeed. He simply snapped after being forced to repeat himself too many times. We all have our hot-button issues (Ward's hot-button issue, for example, is flag desecration, and mine is people talking trash about academia and academics, which happens here with a surprising frequency for a forum ostensibly dedicated to discussion of a rather fringe area of historical inquiry) and we've all said things in anger that we don't necessarily mean or intend to be taken literally (even though this is obviously a problem when the medium of communication is solely text, and many of the forum members are gifted with some sort of high-functioning autism). Anyone who knows AHP personally would know that he isn't the ogre that people here often make him out to be. He certainly is under no illusion that he's the only authority here on this subject:He was being hyperbolic.
I'm certainly not the only person who knows a lot about the Ottoman Empire, even on this site.