What's going on? I tried to log on last night and again this morning with my usual account and I got 'Access Denied'. I just logged on this morning through another location and I find that my most recent post (which agreed with a point that Jim recently made) has been deleted and a thread I began last night about the UK general election has also been deleted.

What is the reason for this? Is it because I'm a Guest rather than a member - albeit one who has been posting regularly to this Forum since 2001 and who has never tried to disguise his identity? Or is it because I agreed with Jim?

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Hi, Chris - if you have problems, you can contact me by e-mail. I have looked through messages from your name and IP, and I see no deleted messages. It is possible that you had a message that was blocked - we do block certain Guest messages that contain certain elements common in automatic Spam messages. It's more common that you posted a message that just didn't "take" because of a glitch that occurred between your browser and Mudcat's software. We ordinarily delete no-name (anonymous) Guest messages - but I see no recently deleted messages in this thread at all.
And I have to say that I'm a little insulted that you would suggest your message may have been deleted simply because you agreed with Jim. We never delete messages for that sort of reason.
Oh, here it is - I see a deleted thread titled Labour Loses the Election, and you're the person who started it. We don't allow Guests to start non-music threads. I might have made an exception for you because you are a long-time poster, but the moderator was correct in deleting the thread. If you want more freedom, all you have to do is register. We have had a lot of problems with unregistered Guests, so we keep them under greater scrutiny and control.

-Joe Offer-
joe@mudcat.org