Shambles...you said

"And far too often in response to some complaint from one poster about the posting of others. When these complaints are responded to - this only encourages the idea that posters have some right over what others choose to post and some right to post only such judgements about the worth of their fellow posters.

"If the quality of posting on our forum was really a concern to our 'moderators' - the more sensible response would be for our 'moderators' to tell such complainers to mind their own business and concentrate on the only posts that anyone has any control over - their own."

After saying that, how can you possibly comment, at all, on the content of anyone else's posts?

You, yourself have said that people should "...concentrate on the only posts that anyone has any control over - their own."

A lot of us, on the other hand, haven't said that, so we are still free to complain about other people's posts, without compromising ourselves....should we feel the need to do so.