Yes, Joe is off canoeing. Yes, Joe has bad days just like the rest of us. I believe the prevailing attitude of the Maintainers is that if we want to act like juvenile idiots that is our privilge. No one can stop us from acting like adults either.
Go check out the last few posts on the UN Conference thread--we changed it a la Mudcat into something entirely different; it is no longer about the Manifesto.
Combining 2 silly, pointless threads is NOT the same as deleting, and it certainly is NOT censorship.