ECafe is become totally useless

GADZUKES! What is required to be able to post on Ecafe – looks like the good ole days of Soviet Russia or Nazi-Germany!

Dan Everiss Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:11 AM In plain English: Only views which are also held by the almighty moderators, are permitted. Mindless Sycophants wanted....... others know where the outgoing swinging door is....... or to not even knock on that door to begin with. Here, the All-Powerful super-oberprokurator appointed for life,  'moderator', MARIA ! pontificates! How totally bland, prejudiced, and STUPID, and useless has Ecafe become! It puts out far more pure wrong information and ignorance, than any valuable or truthful information, about anyone or anything!.... especially so, NOT about our ROCA, or anti-MP Russian Orthodoxy. Rd. 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