For chrissake Joe, ban me, but don't continue to manipulate, punish, and poison the forum with this vendetta.

It is becoming increasingly obvious to at least some of your supporters (as it has been for some time to all of your detractors) that you, Jeri, catspaw, katlaughing, and Big Mick (the clones who have personally identified themselves, even though you said their identities would not be revealed) are on the absolute wrong track with this "anti-guest pogrom" as Lepus Rex so aptly described it.
Yet, your little group keeps hunkered down in the bunkers, deluding yourselves into believing that disrupting and censoring the forum is a good way to get back at me.

This isn't high school Joe. You and the clones look like idiots, and are sewing some serious seeds of discontent that really can destroy the forum if you continue down this road of "controlling" posters, posts, and threads, and wielding power because you can.

All kinds of people have said "what problem"? Your justifications sound like the Bush administration's justifications for going to war against Saddam. Some of us know better. We know that such an amorphous campaign gets undertaken when there are personal grudge matches involved. If you are going to do the job of forum moderator well, you can't allow your personal feelings about posters, no matter how much you dislike their posting habits, or what they've said to you and your friends, to make you so reactionary and unbalanced.

And to be messing with the two most important musically related political discussions--PEL and war with Iraq--in the forum in recent years is just inexcusable. People are using this place as a means of political organizing, it is true. But it is political organizing being done by politically oriented folk musicians. You can't separate the two, and declare that the two subjects your forum participants feel the most passionate about, are going to be "limited" because you think those people post too prolifically.

So what if they are posting prolifically? It is what has made this site not only enjoyable, but an important space for discussion and debate in the online folk and blues music community. This is one of the only places online where folk and blues musicians can come to discuss these crucially important issues. Remember Joe, these issues are being discussed here, because these are the issues that matter deeply to a core group of politically oriented folk and blues musicians. You should be taking great pride in the fact that they have chosen this forum to engage in their discussions and debates. Not ostracize and bully and demean them for it.

If you and the clones don't get that, then you really do need to step aside, and turn the reigns over to people who aren't so invested in their petty personal shit as you guys seem to be, who can moderate the forum with an open hand, rather than a closed fist.