"And far too often in response to some complaint from one poster about the posting of others. When these complaints are responded to - this only encourages the idea that posters have some right over what others choose to post and some right to post only such judgements about the worth of their fellow posters.

"If the quality of posting on our forum was really a concern to our 'moderators' - the more sensible response would be for our 'moderators' to tell such complainers to mind their own business and concentrate on the only posts that anyone has any control over - their own."


That seems to me to be a strange concept - that somebody should not be allowed to do something about something they find, say, offensive. Don't you think people should have the right to complain about something which offends them? If the offending thing has been said, obviously nothing can be done to make it unsaid. But someone in authority can take the sayer 'to task' for saying it. With things posted on a forum, while there is nothing which can be done to tutn back time - make it so that the offending words had never been there, it is (I think) reasonable for the offended person to assume that, having been offended by something, the people in charge of the forum would do what they could to prevent the offending post from remaining on the internet for ever.

It is not for anyone other than the offended person to decide whether somehing is offensive or not. If omeone says they find somethign offensive, they do. They have a right to complain (to somebody) about being offended by somebody and expect appropriate action to be taken.