You said that Jim should publish his ideas in a scholarly journal instead of
putting his ideas on B-Hebrew. You know very well that that is impossible for
amateur Bible "researchers" or whatever they are called. Only highly educated
experts would even know how to write an article for a scholarly journal.
B-Hebrew is probably the only place for amateurs to try out their ideas. I
don't know of any other possible way for him or anyone else like him to test
out their ideas.
The problem is that all people have ideas, and not just experts. When average
people have ideas, they can either ignore them or they can ask people who
know more what they think of their ideas. People have ideas in every subject
in life, and not just their specialty. They don't always try to tell
everyone, but what exactly is B-Hebrew for?