"my view is that all of this anonymous imposition, suspicion, paranoia and fuss over creating two of these birthday threads on our forum - makes very little logical sense to me..... "

I do agree,the fuss over the two threads make very little sense to me. The moderator resolved it, like it or not, and it becomes time to move on to bigger things.

And I do agree with you Shambles, some of your threads are hijacked by posters (such as what occured in Art Blakely)without any reason.   The topic is started, let it alone. There is no need for ANYONE to drift or attack.