The way Mudcat is run is the main excuse for trolling here. There doesn't seem to be a positive goal intended, these threads only serve to piss people off and attract more trolls. I've never understood why these serial bitch-about-Mudcat threads are allowed to persist here.

The only problem IS the way our forum has been stolen by a few who have made a complete mess of it.

If it wasn't such a mess - those few that are responsible would not need to fear discussion of this mess and call for threads like this one to be prevented.

That these few do not wish anyone else to discuss it - rather demonstrates the mess they have made - and how embarrassed they become when the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team attempts to justify yet more restrictions about what they will allow to be posted and by whom.

This in his vain attenpt to chase and control the shadows that cannot do any real harm and can be safely ignored.

And to which pointless crusade - all that is fine and different about our forum and what has made it special is seen to be sacrificed.

These threads are about the only subject that all posters to our forum have in common. So why wouldn't all posters wish to have their say?

Our 'moderators' being seen to keep on complaining about and closing threads like these is the cause of most of the frustration. It is a subject that should be able to be discussed on our forum like any other.

If our 'moderators' actually addressed more than just the concerns of those noisy few - rather then being seen to judge and try to prevent any contrary views from being expressed and discussed in such threads - our forum would not perhaps be in the mess that the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team tell us it is - in his 'for the record' statement.

When all 'moderators' are known and all imposed actions are recorded - posters and 'moderators' will have some protection.   
   
Not being permitted to talk about the mess - will not make the mess go away and being so secretive and precious - will only confirm in some posters eyes - that there is something to hide.

If there is not - what harm can there be in being see to operate openly? This is after all a forum on a website - not the FBI.

You may not think this when our 'moderators' refer to them being under attack and use terms like hijacking..............