I support the moderators on this forum. It's a lively and active forum with a feisty below-the-line section. And, as far as I can see, there are just three active mods (I'm up for being disabused on that). Broad-brush attacks on mods are unacceptable and I don't blame them for shutting down threads if that happens. But I'd just add this: when the Gaughan Forum was in its heyday, sadly passed, Molly the mod (and the only mod) was a woman you did NOT bloody argue with. Yes she'd let things ride for a bit, but once the bit was between her teeth you did NOT answer back. A bollocking from Molly was a BOLLOCKING, end of, and I've been on the receiving end more than once. But if Molly was posting as a mod she would always say "this is Molly with her mod hat on..." Otherwise she was an ordinary member of the forum, like everybody else, a damned spiky and funny one at that. We could do with a bit more of that here. It's great to see Jeri (despite her serial negativity) and Joe posting as ordinary forum members, and Maggie does a brilliant job, mostly under the radar. But there's that uneasy feeling, especially with Joe, that he can kind of say daft things just as much as the rest of us can, yet be rather manipulative apropos of "what's allowed" here. Address that, Joe!