I am accustomed to discovering that a forum supposedly dedicated to the exchange of ideas, poetry, lyrics, art and politics has either disappeared or banned my participation.

A few of the most recent sites that have banned my participation, usually for anti Republican opinions or inflamatory thought pictures, have been:
The Democratic Underground
The Liberty Forum
Renderosity
Salty Poetry
String Asylum
Maestronet
and a multitude of dozens of other sites I can not even remember at this hour.
The last two I listed actually succeeded in bilking me of donations amounting to less than $400.

It takes a small man to carry a big grudge whose concepts of authority and power is examplified by their need to silence others.

If mudcat died an un natural death the ashes of the most insightful people would settle and the flow of thought would be re born.
The mix of people here is an azeotrope of ambrosia and mud.
When John mentioned a site that had nothing to say I heard a song in my head "60,000 posts and nothing to say". Those kind of sites are a prolific pasturized potion of petty pathetic posts...

sorry if I spit.