What it means though, is that he will likely just keep being reasonable at you, and you'll keep trying to make him lose it.

Let us examine this quite prosterous senario. For a start - if the The Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team had ever been reasonable or just as importantly, ever accepted the realities of our forum and not set out to shape it to his tastes - I would not have had any justification for ever suggesting to him that I or any other poster had been unfairly treated.

But I have now clearly evidenced that this is not the case and it is this evidence and the excuses, justification and defences given for this unfair treatment- that results in the Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team 'losing it' and publicly calling Max's fellow invited guest names.

The Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team then publicly excuses, defends and justifies the example set of the personal attacks he makes and expects (and usually receives) support from the usual suspects who then follow this example and mount (and are permitted to mount) personal attacks against the usual selected easy targets - who are also Max's invited guests. And this is reasonable?

The moment you describe anyone as reasonable - it then follows that anyone who disagrees with this person - is being unreasonable. It then becomes a popularity contest - and under these rules - there can only be one winner.

But our forum is for discussion and to enable us all be able to disagree it is not a contest. All that is expected is that all posters can post on equal terms and to see their words remain as posted.

We have posters who are still inhibited form posting Birthday Threads, and anything that could be judged as a copycat thread. No one knows if they should refresh an old thread or start a new one - as both can be judged to be wrong. Silly little details like the posting of 100th post claims are blown out of all ptoportion. Threads are closed - mainly it appears because they now can be. Entire threads are now deleted and changes to thread titles can be imposed without the originator's knowledge or permission. And all these imposed changes are still not enough for the Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team. Who has now proposed the members only posting of BS and a 'review' of all Guest posts to the music forum. What other changes is he intending to impose?

And all this is done under the cover of protecting posters from personal attacks...............This is reasonable - or fair? And is it anything like the original concept of our forum that so many of us felt welcomed, safe and tolerated in?