Sadly that is the point - the channel has been changed.

I liked the forum as it was - for I and all the other contributors, including Joe Offer - equally made it so) made it so. The forum is what it is BECAUSE of all the positive effort on OUR parts.

Most of it I still like but this compulsion for some unamed volunteers to decide for others what may do harm and delete our contributions - is not anything to do with what made and still makes the forum the fine place it still just about manages to be.

Perhaps messages could be left alone long enough to see if anyone does post and considers them to have harmed anyone? We get used to ignoring so much online so why cannot the decision to read posts or not be left up to the contributors to our forum?