As for discussing the (for the record) statement - the following post indicates some of the difficulties caused by it.

Subject: RE: BS: Closed threads & deleted posts.
From: Ebbie - PM
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 01:31 PM

"And despite our best efforts, Mudcat is no longer a pleasant place to hang out and goof off or have a good discussion."

Oh. I get it. If I report that in my opinion the Mudcat is still a pleasant place to hang out and goof off and have a good discussion then I'm disagreeing with Joe Offer, which makes Joe a liar and therefore he must go.

Am I right?

Posters will free to repeatedly post here to repeatedly judge me and my posting of repetition and and of being the cause of every ill known to mankind. To post jokes recipes, jokes and the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team will litter this thread with spam - but due to the division now actively encouraged on our forum - no one appears to feel free to post either agree or disagree with this statement and its suggested solution or to actually discuss it at all.

Some - rather than simply not discuss it, will even post at length to discuss all the good reasons why it does not need to be discussed.      

You may have missed the following editing comment as it was inserted into an existing thread (where no editing action had been imposed) and did not refresh the thread.

No, nothing you've posted has been deleted. It takes quite a bit to warrant deletion - direct attacks on people, racism, stalking, or frequent multiple posts of the same messages.
-Joe Offer-

This of course despite my request that all editing comments are limited to only where same form of action has been judged to be required and that editing comments are always used to indicate where this has occured.

And of course had this simple suggestion been adopted - there would have been no need for any poster to worry or inquire publicly if any of their posts had been 'silently deleted', nor for the reply to made in an inserted editing comment.