Here's an example of the kind of malicious moderation I'm talking about. One of the posters who has served as a designated target in the Mudcat and has been on the receiving end of enormous amounts of abuse, including quite a lot of extremely vicious (and often obscene) abuse from one of the moderators, posted a poem they had written. In the poem, they used the word Pennine. One of the moderators changed Pennine to penile. There were other changes as well, but that's the one I remember

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Yes, I remember that incident well. It happened in June, 2008. I reported the incident to Max, and the moderator was removed. If there have been subsequent incidents, please tell me privately. Oh, and if you will recall, I worked very hard to protect the "designated target" from attacks, even though there were a number of well-known Mudcatters who were vehemently opposed to him.
-Joe Offer-