Where we differ is that it is my belief that the behaviour of posters has driven the introduction of new moderation features...

There is only one side fighting now and all the casualties are from friendly fire.

It is my view that all these needless restrictions, judgements and all the imposed deletions and closures and all the pompous justifications and excuses - are waving a red rag at a bull and are now presenting an irresistable target to a very few - who can just be safely ignored.

Shamble's: A useful thread for reporting and commenting on the effects of "The Licening Act 2003" - action NOT closed.

In fact that thread WAS subject to imposed closure. I posted the details of this closure into that thread and all reference to this was recently deleted.

Because of Joe Offer's now firm and rigidly enforced rule that there can only be one thread on one subject at a time - that thread was closed by Joe Offer a few months back when another thread was started. It was only re-opened when I made the case for it and there were no further contribution made to the new one.