That these contentious exchanges between members and moderators are occurring is inevitable. It stems from the fact that there are many thousands of PWS users that are beyond frustrated at what IBM has done to WU. Except for a small subset of extremely motivated and technologically savvy enthusiasts that are willing to employ complex workarounds to get their PWSs somewhere on the web, most are just screwed, and they are angry. It's nice that this forum exists so matters can be discussed, but without both sides of the conversation being honest and engaged, it's really a pointless exercise that is bound to frustrate those that do take the issues seriously.
I have largely disengaged because it became clear to me months ago that IBM has only two goals here. 1) To prevent a slam-dunk lawsuit from equipment manufacturers whose equipment can contractually only connect to WU, and 2) Do enough to preserve the "hyper-local" weather station feeds that they apparently had some plan for.
If IBM wanted WU to work, it would work. The process might have taken months. Instead it has been a dog's lunch for years. That 200,000+ PWSs that people purchased on the promise that WU would host their data (presumably competently like it was) bothers them not at all. That while they have us beta-test their pitiful efforts while, at the same time, cranking out defective weather data to millions of end users apparently bothers them not at all. A cynical type would conclude that their stockholders are their only constituency group, and that WU is so far below the radar that nobody notices.