Where is all the serenity? Pat our friend from Hull had said all what you said in just two words! And I didn't take any more notice of those two words than I intend to take of yours.

I get answers? Like you have answered this one? Perhaps If when YOU ever do answers such questions as the following and it gets debated, I and others can stop asking questions like - where have our contributions gone and why has my thread been closed? Until then or until this thread is deleted or some excuse is found to close this one - I will just carry on trying to find out or hoping that I will reading some calm and reasoned thinking and some evidence that will change my view.

Wolfgang et al - do you think that the routine deleting of entire threads and all their posts - to address a few posts judged to be 'offending' - is the best and fairest course of action to those Max has invited to contribute and who just happen to be unlucky to share this thread? And just because the volunteer in question "couldn't see spending much of my time sorting the wheat from the chaff?" [The full quote follows.] Do you think action should be taken to ensure that it does not happen again?

Now threads get deleted (along with perfectly acceptable postings) because certain people only - (this does not seem to apply to some) - are saying nasty things.

I must be the only one who ever had ever ask why a thread that I originated had been closed twice? This was because some fine folk that I respect, (including Joe) were (at that time) saying very nice things about me and when it was recently refreshed - some people continued to say nice things about me! Perhaps this thread can be re-opened - as there is no justification for its closure?

Why was my thread closed twice?