Please let me know what behavior of mine in this thread seems troll-like.

These are the behaviors I consider troll-like:

• You took a relatively obscure post of yours (which merlyn failed to reply to) and elevated it to a whole top-level node.
• You have insistently replied to many nodes in this thread. Granted, you started it to engage in a discussion, but there is a point where you should just let the comments stand (e.g. posting 8 levels deep seems a bit excessive to dwell on one minor point).
• In your own words, you described your enjoyment of "heated discussions."

If you would like to search through some of my other posts, you will see that I am a regular contributor to this community

This is why I hesitated to call you an outright troll, and added the caveat that it might just be "troll-like behavior." I have not reviewed your entire post history, and am not prepared to completely write you off. I hope my post wasn't read in that way.

I imagine some members here are assuming that I am trying to be a troll because the object of this post is a valued community member.

Please do not consider me in that group. As I stated, my post had no substantive reply. I do not think merlyn is particularly mean-spirited, but I'm not in any position to defend or condemn his behavior. I was simply commenting on yours.