Hello all,

Mudcat eh? Censorship eh?

I enjoy reading this forum, but personally enjoy it less so when people talk of banning members or removing posts - but then every now and then there's a poster or a post I do think should be banned or removed - and I don't just mean the obvious spam. For me, the personal grudges and old wounds reopened make fascinating reading. I find that the internet somehow makes people very quick to be extremely aggressive and extremely rude - this entertains me both on a base level 'ha ha' way and also in a pseudo-anthropological 'how curious' manner. I guess it's the same as road-rage, in a way - in that, people are in their cars, surrounded by their things so take it personally when people do something which annoys their feelings.

But where should the bans / censorship start / stop? Spam? Thread drift? Insults? Not at all?

If I were to call you all a shower of shites, would the great god Joe Offer be called down to swoop? What if I just singled one person out and called them a shite? What if I implied the great prophet Mohammed's more active followers were bodhran players at the session of life?

Should this thread be banned? Honestly?