It surprises me that so much support is given to those who are being sneaky and underhanded and so little support to those who are open and honest.

Therein lies the problem. Shambles presents this as a campaign for truth and justice. It's actually initially driven by unhappiness at someone renaming threads and grouping together multiple threads into a single entity, however many months back. On every moderated board I've ever seen, that's been the *expected* task of moderators. If you notice that it happened, you can read and see if anything got lost in the shuffle. If you don't notice - well, if you're not reading the thread then it ain't a big deal, now is it?

Shambles' solution was twofold. Firstly, start multiple threads per week complaining, all making the same comment. Secondly, complain about this in a non-sequitur fashion in many other threads. Eventually Joe and Max responded as expected, by telling him to fuck off and get a life.

Of these, the only ones being "open and honest" are Joe and Max. Shambles is certainly "open" - we all know what he wants - but "honest"? Not on this subject, I'm afraid.

Graham.