This in itself implies that I have no right to comment here. Is that what you are saying? And if so, on what basis?
I never said either explicitly or implicitly that this was anything more than hearsay. If I thought that anyone reading the comment would be expected to be familiar with the term “Ring Knocker” I wouldn’t have felt compelled to provide that hearsay as background information, but since the OP was asking about Naval traditions and culture I thought it necessary to provide background information for the uninitiated. Because that’s how I perceived that “this place works.”
Forgive me. I’ll crawl back under my rock.