Joe: Apologies in advance if you consider this inflammatory, and delete it if you want.

Do you really think that the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team would judge that he would now need your permission to do exactly as he wants, to yours or anyone else's contrubution? But you seened to have overlooked the fact that you gave permission in advance for him to delete this thread - not for him to rename it.

And why would you think that he would require your agreement for having done just that. And for his attempt to justify his departure from his own rules - by pointing the finger of blame at me for this and further encouraging this witch hunt......?

As Shambles pointed out, we routinely delete Martin Gibson threads - we also usually delete all threads that are critical of an individual. I won't do it on this one because the individual involved would probably make a stink, but at least I'm going to rename it so it's not quite so directly pointed at one person.

I have consistently requested a return to where all posters are posting an equal terms.

This would then protect all posters from any personally motivated and selectivly imposed special treatment and it would protect all 'moderator/posters' from any accusation or suspicion that they were doing this and abusing their trusted and privileged role.