Roger - first - neither of those names are particularly abusive. "If the shoe fits", etc.

Mmario – To be called an idiot, an asshole or a looney (as I have recently been called on our forum by Joe Offer) may not measure quite so far up on the abusive name-calling front as some of Joe's supporters can now manage to post – without any censure. However they would still qualify as deliberate personal attacks and name-calling.

But as you full well know – it is not the level of the abuse that is of most concern - when Joe Offer or any other volunteer fellow poster sets this example on our forum.

[PM] Bert BS: Censorship on Mudcat (1009* d) RE: BS: Censorship on Mudcat 06 Feb 05

The only censorship on Mudcat is to delete deliberate personal attacks. If you are the victim of any other kind of censorship send a PM to Joe, Max, Pene or any of the Joe Clones (even me). I assure you that you will receive a reasoned reply.

Well, there are a few other things we delete - racism & hate messages, Spam, copy-paste non-music articles that fill more than one screen - I think that about covers it.
-Joe Offer-

MMarion perhaps you can tell us who now protects posters from abusive personal attacks and name-calling - when these attacks are emanating from the very volunteer fellow posters who are supposed to protect us from them?