Who would possibly post to this forum knowing that a endless barrage of arguments will destroy their point and force them to spend all day defending it, and every subsequent attempt at meaning.

I feel that even after so many years of having every suggestion made being ignored and encouraged to be mocked - I still do my best to try and post to our forum despite the above.

Well I try my best with any reasoned attempt to argue with the rather simple but vital principle I try to defend at the heart of the point here. But too many posts here tend to ignore this approach and just resort to abusive personal attacks.

Mainly because this response is now shown - by the example given by those few who feel themselves qualified to impose judgement on their fellow posters - to be an acceptable one. And that to feel accepted, on our now sadly divided forum (or rather to be seen to be on the right or the winning side)- would seem to be more important than to feel you were doing and supporting the decent thing.

The view of any poster does not not get any less valid - because others try every trick in the book (and a few that are not) to try and repress it and to try and make this repression appear somehow noble.

I am a man who remains open to persuasion - I have yet to be persuaded by any argument here that, anonymous, selective, secret and imposed judgement, division, inequality and hypocrisy are good things. Nor have I been persuaded that there is such a thing as 'acceptable' repression as the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team seems to believe there is.

You may have missed the following editing comment as it was inserted into an existing post and did not refresh the thread.

Apology to Shambles: Sorry for the misunderstanding. Messages from Clinton have been undeleted. Your other requests have not been ignored - they just have not been accepted.
-Joe Offer-