Absolutely right, Lighter.

Also right, M.Ted: "... nor anyone else has either a right or guarantee of free speech in this community" ... or any other, and rightly so.

I should *not* have the freedom to post on here (or anywhere) that "xxxx is a f---ing w-----" or anything else which is personally abusive. Neither should you. And while we all should be able to freely and vigorously dismantle another person's views with intelligence, logic and our own experience, that should never be allowed to become an attack on the person. Not only is that potentially damaging to the person concerned and to the confidence of other Mudcatters to post, it is abusive, slanderous and, in terms of advancing an argument and bringing understanding, it is sloppy, retrograde and completely useless.