Roger:

Look through the FAQs and other posts available to newcomers and tell me the guidelines are not published. I am pretty sure they have been explicated in the past if not several times.

No-one on the Cat has ever been punished and it just an alarmist exaggeration to call it that. Nor has anyone posting to the cat ever committed a crime by doing so except perhaps inducing emotional distress or assault with a blunt sense of humor.

Even if the whole story was a secret council with editorial power based entirely on whimsy (which it is not) it is pretty much a decision that gets made by the owner. I guess it is like painting the walls in a house. If you own it, you choose the colors. If you don;t own it, you have to clear it with he who do. The Cat is not a "commune", it is a "community". Big diff.

No, it is not too much to ask, now that you are boiling it down to a courteous request. It IS too much to whinge about, though.

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