Not too long ago I was talking to Egadfly about the rehabilitation of Harris (putting aside the popular yet still unfounded theory that Egadfly is a Harris sockpuppet)...
I think we both recognised his contribution to Trad & agreed (didn't we, E.? Do correct me on this) that it is the ongoing potential for comedy with Harris that is the biggest obstacle to bringing him back into the fold.
And, yes, I was honest enough to admit that I suffer from this affliction too.
Mention Harris' name and we all have our favourite Harris moments that we like to dwell on and the comedy just writes itself...

So how do we fix this?

The spectrum of Classic/Traditional style has room for everybody, even those who make up their own 'rules' about it all.

Harris is a great salesman & a great Google-er of obscure links. Considered correctly the guy's an asset.
What we aren't going to get from Harris is any explanation of how he was once a Yankee and there was no Trad in the South before Ben Silver and now he is a Southerner and the story is different again. That is just not going to happen.

But what we can do is to work with the chap in some way for the greater good and try to forget his posts from 2004 to date which make no sense or that were stolen from Horace and try to move forward together.

I'm happy to offer the hand of friendship to a new reformed Harris. Shouldn't you too? It would be in keeping with the new more realistic Trad that we see here on FNB and that is also discussed on SF and all the Trad blogs.

Jim