The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80780 Message #1479870
Posted By: The Shambles
07-May-05 - 02:30 AM
Thread Name: Objections to Joe Offer
Subject: RE: Objections to Joe Offer
The Mudcat Cafe reserves the right to edit, move, combine, rename, or delete all threads and messages posted in the Forum....."
It should be noted that - this of course was pinned on to the stable door long after many horses had bolted by those who wished to shape our forum by doing these things - at the time when most other long-term posters were busy shaping our forum by posting to it.
However, is The Mudcat Cafe reserving the right to do these things - really the same as anonymous volunteers now imposing them upon fellow posters as a matter of routine?
Max reserving the right to do these things is sensible.
Using this to justify needless meddling as a matter of routine, by fellow posters (some of them remaining anonymous) and the imposition of their personal taste and judgement upon the invited and freely given contributions of - other fellow posters without the originator's knowledge or consent - is not sensible.
It does not show the correct level of respect and in the long-run the division caused by it - will prove counter-productive.