SWMBO is long gone, divorce one the positive events in my life, so when I say something about the forum to my cat, she looks at me, yawns and goes back to napping.

I am thinking that the forum is fostering among the faithful something equivalent to a hive mind. Single thoughts shared by instinct by all the other minds. When there is disturbance in the force, I liken it to a wasp invading, all the drones and the queen take action and isolate and evict the wasp.