I do NOT agree that Joe, Jeff or any of the helpers should be required to obtain 'permission' to do minor editing....*

And I am accused of 'skewed' logic.

Bill - If the originator's permission is not first obtained - then your eupemistic - "minor editing" - becomes censorship. Imposed upon the contributions of their fellow posters - by anonymous volunteers.

And this censorship imposed now as a matter of routine - on a trivial excuse to do so - and based only on our anonymous volunteer's personal judgement. This imposed personal judgment and the example currently being set by this - now threatens to shape our forum more than our freely given contributions do.

We are 'offically' told (by our volunteers) that these unknown number of anonymous volunteers are 'trusted' by Mudcatters. How can Mudcatters be said to trust anyone whose names are intentionally witheld from Mudcatters? Is there really any at all - trust in this?

Can this please now be reviewed and changed to something that is open, fair and has a clear objective - rather than something that seems to be designed simply for some posters to be able to impose their (flawed) personal judgement upon their fellow posters?