So what the fuck's wrong with colorful language?

Seems some adults' sensibilities here are a bit too Victorian.

I'm not advocating tolerating a lot of swearing AT people. But Jaysus, don't start censoring language that is as salty and expressive of "the folk" as one can get!

The needless censoring and "outing" of people that gets done around here is all about popularity in the forum. Censoring/outing of people by Joe Offer and The Mudcat Royals is nothing but a blatant abuse of power.

Any sensible person knows a decent, reasonable forum administrator wouldn't put up with a Martin Gibson. Joe admits to spending "hundreds of hours" cleaning up after him. Which of course means Joe has a martyr complex, so needs to keep Martin around. Without Martin around, Joe would have to go after and crush other forum users to show how great and powerful he is, and y'all would start to see just how far off base he is.

Joe and the clones have always been far too subjective and selective about policing the forum. If they like you, you can get away with any bullshit. If they don't, they harrass you, threaten you, bully you, etc.

It's always been amateur hour at Mudcat. Reliability problems, refusal of tech assistance from knowledgeable people, eejits policing the forum and bullying the users. The BS section was the best idea ever implemented, the member-guest log-in the worst.

But that's Mudcat. Always sold "as is".