Azizi - maybe that is why there are a number of moderators - that will iron out any perceived favouritism.

From what I understand this problem arose about six years ago. He had one particular subject that occupied his mind and started a number of threads on the same subject. From what I can gather these threads were combined, which caused Roger to get rather upset. Later on the letters UK were put into the title. This was done to make the subject more clear to users but Roger got upset that 'his' thread title had been changed without his permission.

I tend now to stay out of Shamble's thread but get irritated when he tries to carry on his fight against Joe, in particular, and the mods in general in other threads. If you check his posting history you will see what I mean.

A number of us have tried to use reason with Roger and the same points are raised again and again and again by different people. None of this gets through to Roger and that does get VERY frustrating. I allowed myself to get to that point for a while but, once I finally realised that he is determined not to see any point of view but his own, I gave up banging my head against a brick wall.

More recently Roger has been starting birthday threads for all sorts of performers, some of whom, IMO, do not really have anything to do with a folk and blues site. This was his reaction to a birthday thread being put in the BS section, rather than staying in the music section.

IMO Roger's reaction to the general rules being enforced against him is childish and unreasonable. We only really hear from the vociferous few but, having talked to quite a number of Mudcatters in 3D this seems to be a prevalent view. From Max's statement in his 'State of the Union' it seems that he is also in agreement.

It is quite likely now that Roger will cut and paste something that I have posted in the past that would appear to contradict this post or that he thinks supports his own view. That has happened before. All I can say is that with time and experience normality decrees that our positions will change to some degree on all but our real core values. That is called growing up.