No -- because, at a guess, he is enjoying it or at least riding the wave with a bit of humor.

Amos - Enjoy is hardly the word for the truth is out there somewhere - but even if that were the case - the point is a good one and probably deserves a better answer that the one you provided. It is really these double standards that provide all the ammunition for the so-called trouble-making guest to exploit.

No one - including me has to open the thread so there is really never any need to delete this or any BS thread.

Kevin if I get told off for duplicate posting - will you take the 'rap'? I have posted the 5 questions here as you suggested for I see that you have alredy provided the link here from Barry Finn's thread.
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The point I would make here is that there is only one punishment for any crime. And that this punishment is used increasingly and not just by Joe. Is it really proportionate that personal attack using foul language from an anonymous poster will receive exactly the same summary justice as a duplicate or an incoherent posting?

There seems to be many more than these two examples of what is not allowed and that will receive this one punishment and these would appear to be increasing. However, the questions that are not at all unreasonable to ask - must be:

1 Should the punishment fit the crime and does it currently?

2 Are all the volunteers authorised to administer summary justice and censor other's postings – without the poster's knowledge or permission – based only on their value judgement?

3 Is there to be no difference to be seen between an abusive post and say an incoherent one?

4 Is a sensible and responsible example being to set when our volunteer police force also indulge in making abusive posts themselves and start calling other posters names?

5 Is it really too much to ask that those that would volunteer to judge (and punish) us – can be expected to always set the standards and be judged themselves by these standards?