It's not accidental that the rules are enforced selectively. It's just the accepted practice here. As has been pointed out, some of the moderators are some of the worst offenders, like the moderator who changed the spelling of words within one member's post in order to ridicule that person. I can't think of a more outrageous abuse of a moderator's powers than that, but that moderator doesn't seem to have suffered any consequences whatever, and it wasn't until the poster and several other people complained about it repeatedly over a period of several days that the the worst of the changes was changed back. And an anonymous moderator (presumably the same one) applied an arbitrary rule to a member that had nothing whatever to do with personal attacks, even without the knowledge of the chief moderator. Some of the people who are known to be moderators regularly make personal attacks on people with impunity.

In practice the Mudcat has a tiered structure, in which some members have different rules applied to them than others. Some are allowed to make personal attacks, which they do quite regularly with no consequences, and some are punished even if they don't make personal attacks.

When this is no longer the case, I will consider sending money to the Mudcat. I thought things were getting better for a while a few months ago, and I was already thinking it might be time to start sending money again, but then they got even worse than they were before, and now there's no way I would consider sending any money. I don't pay people to treat me as a third class citizen.