http://www.albion.com/netiquette/rule1.html

One of the problems of having a censor is that it becomes challenge to find ways of getting around being censored. You can do this by always being seen to suck-up to the censor so that they will find it is difficult to impose action on you as they would others.

There are many ways to 'push the envelope' but what happens is that in this game - and in the attempt to steer close to the permited limits - it is possible to forget that the most important thing is using the natural inhibitors that we all have inbuilt. In other words, self censorship.

All of tend to know if what we intend to post is really as worthy, pure and positive as we may try to maintain publicly that it is. All that I would like to see is posters not being encouraged by example to judge the worth of their fellow posters or have 'fun' at their expense - but a return to them being encouraged to concentrate on making the content of their own posts as positive, tolerant and as conscious of the realities and limitations of our forum as possible.

When it is finally accepted that our forum is not a private members club to be shaped - or when Max agrees to turns it into a private members club - as requested by the Chief of the Mudcat Editing team - peace may have a chance of breaking out. Currently posters are feeling they are being forced to take sides. I would like to see an end to all this division and for all posters to be able to post once again on equal terms. The very thing that made The Mudcat Discussion Forum the special place it still remains.