Gee, I thought Joe was quite consistent. It's just that people don't understand him. As kendall says, Joe doesn't like personal attacks. Martin Gibson still doesn't understand that, and still thinks he's being censored for crude language. Many of his personal attacks involve crude language, but it's his combat that gets him censored.

And Joe does remove personal attacks when he finds them, but doesn't go out of his way to look for things to censor. Joe is here for the music.

Joe doesn't usually like foul language, and doesn't use anything stronger than "shit" in his everyday speech, but he objects far more strongly to the euphemizing of said foul language. If Joe is quoting somebody who says "fuck," Joe says "fuck."

Joe has an extremely strong objection to the sanitizing of folk music, especially in a folk music forum. He may find rugby songs distasteful, but he will fight to ensure that they continue to exist.

Joe is hesitant to do any sort of censorship at all, but he knows it has to be done at times. He does delete foul language from thread titles when it appears to be there simply to provoke people - but not when it serves a legitimate purpose like identifying a song by title.

But in this circumstance, Joe is in a quandry, and is open to discussion. I'd like to see John Mehlburg come up with a solution - one that doesn't compromise our study of folk music too extremely.

-Joe Offer-