Shambles, you're twisting my point. Any of those who serve as clones are posting on the same footing as anyone else. If they started posting personal assaults their stuff would be messed weith jsut as surely as yours or anyone else's who did the same. That they are also clones (meaning they can fix posts) and you are not is because for whatever reason they are trusted to exercise mature judgement. And when they do so it is primarily to masintain an atmosphere where people won't get hurt, balanced against letting this flow as much as possible without interference. Sure it is a judgement call.

But you may have forgotten that we have seen many instances of what happens when there is NO editing at all. It gets wild, the invective gets corrosive as hell, people come in and tromp on personalities of others for no reason except bile, and a lot of pain and bull gets generated which serves no good and no purpose.

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