I guess it's a question of whether we want to be a public forum or a private club. It's all very well reminding us that we carry the power to choose what we read and look at, but what we don't have is the power to exclude those whose behaviour is simply unacceptable by any standards.

If you think of it in, say, folk club terms - would you put up with someone whose behaviour was totally unacceptable or would you show him the door. And if the same person kept on reappearing time after time, to the detriment of the club and the majority of reasonable people in it - would you not wish to be able to deal with it?

I agree that some of the threads are unpleasant - there are some subjects which bring out the worst in people because of entrenched views and we are probably all guilty of that. There is one famous organisation that bans all political and religious discussion - sounds like a good idea (massive grin thing).

In the meantime, I hope Joe does continue to edit (call it censor if you like) - perhaps you could edit "bob jr"'s posts to put some capitals and punctuation in - they'd be much easier to read!!

Cheers, Terry