A sane, thoughtful and fine suggestion. I submit for reflection that all those who post here DO start out on equal terms.

Amos I can only beleive that you are being deliberately obtuse and simply ignoring the evidence being provided here. Perhaps you could reflect on this evidence?

There are now a numberless amount of unknown posters (i.e. the 'clones')who are not posting on equal terms. I cannot censor their contributions even if they publicly call me names like "idiot" (like in this thread) but they can censor mine - as if I used such language - this could be construed as an abusive personal attack. Or requests to close the thread would be made because others thought the contents to be unsuitable - and the thread will be closed - as this one was. The reasons for this or who was responsible and why it was susequently re-opened have yet to be made public.

These few have the power in unknown varying degrees - to censor the postings of everyone else. Despite the often quoted and well-believed concept that these powers are rarely exercised and only used for abusive posts - the evidence provided here - which is in no way the whole story and is only that that I have stumbled over recently - demonstrates a different story.

There are many occasions where threads and post (even BS threads and including this one) are closed, deleted, moved, edited or otherwise censored on grounds such as the contribution not conforming to the individual 'clone's' concept of:

1 What can be understood.

2 Is political (i.e The Menorial Thread).

3 Exceeding some unspecified quota of postings.

And just about any other reason.

posts are not the same though, and if the extremists want to argue that vilification is equal to edification, they are just being obtuse.

Those that may argue this may well be obtuse but anyone who argues that abitary and unaccountable censorship of our postings on our forum
is equal to any degree of freedom of expression - is being equally obtuse and ignoring all the painful lessons of our history.

If you contend that some form of censorship of our forum is necessary - would it be unreasonable to ask and to expect to be told what the rules were, when they can be exercised and by whom?