It is not for anyone other than the offended person to decide whether somehing is offensive or not. If omeone says they find somethign offensive, they do. They have a right to complain (to somebody) about being offended by somebody and expect appropriate action to be taken.

This is an interesting concept. For we are constantly being told (by our 'moderators' and their few but noisy supporters) that no poster has any rights at all. Or do you think that applies only to me - and that you do have some rights on our forum?

Why are they not posting to correct your interesting concept that posters who have no right to post or no right to expect their words to remain as posted - do have some right to post to complain about what others post and expect some action to be taken as result?

You have certainly highlighted one of the main problems of the sort of complaining about the worth of posters - that is now encouraged on our forum.

If you expect the right to post what you wish and accept that other posters also have this right - should you really expect never to be offended on our forum? Is the risk of you being offended but a small price (and one well worth paying) for your right to have your say?

Would you consider that others should have the right to complain about your posts and expect action to be imposed on your posts as a result? Or would you feel you had the right to complain about that also?

Perhaps all posters should all be allowed and encouraged to concentrate on simply posting our views - to respond to the views of others or to ignore them - and to leave all the personal judgements to a later date and to an even higher authority than the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team?