You make a valid point, PFR - but I, for one, don't want to see Mudcat moderators charged with sifting through posts and deleting posts because somebody thinks them objectionable. Content-based moderation gets far too arbitrary, far too quickly.
The reader is a far better judge of such things, than is the editor. Are you afraid Mudcatters are going to get brainwashed or something? Do you think this petition got lots of signatures because of the Mudcat thread?

-Joe-