When people see a person continually banging their head bloody against a brick wall, it's just human nature to implore them to stop.

Hmmm?

Catspaw and co have been banging their heads against a brick wall for many years - in an obvously vain attempt to control what others choose to post.

Are they seen to be implored to stop (to any great extent) - or are their pointless actions seen to be encouraged?

And the justification provided for these online bullying and 'fun' attempts is supposed to be to prevent our forum from being bored by discussions on the same subject.

In the process our forum is littered with foul language, needless personal judgements about a poster's worth, name-calling and abuse.

Perhaps it is simply better to just encourage the reality that posters and 'moderators' only have any control over their own posting and if the posts of others are not to their taste - to simply ignore them?

It is human nature to do many things - and is used as an excuse by many to do what they want but are otherwise inhibited from doing.

A good example is rape by (some) soldiers in wartime. You can excuse this as being human nature - as it sadly is.

But they are many selfless acts of bravery and kindness undertaken by (some) soldiers in the same situations.

I like to take some comfort in the fact that this is also human nature.