"Am I the only one who has difficulty in working out the criteria used by the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team to judge who is a nice person (to be treated nicely) and who is not?"

While I disagree with the terminology I agree with the sentiment. That post I questioned was allowed to stay because none of the clones who read it care that you get dissed on this forum. It serves a purpose for some of them, I'm sure. THEY didn't say it. Just left it. Same thing I think. As to the rule Joe laid out: It boils down to 'be nice'. Define nice? Who the fuck knows. Guess it depends on who likes whom.