Thank you for the acorn!
Talking about compost is a little like (on most online forums) talking about gun control, birth control, or politics! You know, contentious.
I saw most of a forum abandon the forum once (in DG) when "someone" was insufficiently respectful to The Revealed Truth About Compost As Preached By Their Compost Guru (TM).
I tried to make it clear that I agreed with 97% to 98% of what he was saying, but that was not good enough. They didn't even try to cast the heretic out, they just took their bat and ball and went home (somewhere).
Sorry, guys! Now I try to never disagree with anything that anyone says about compost. At most I'll say that there are other ways, too.
In fact, there is almost NOthing that you can do to keep organic matter from turning into compost. Maybe freezing it, or dehydrating it to bone-dryness, would slow it down enough to say that it is not composting. The only way you can NOT make compost is to not bring home any compost makings.
