I ought to have made some things more clear, even though some of this may repeat what I had said, here or elsewhere.

~ I don't mind spam being removed, either words or pictures. In fact, those who really don't post here except to disrupt are getting to be annoying. (And that picture, yes, was and is wholly ludicrous for a forum like this -- and it continues to be re-posted.)

~ What bothered me was that this was done without anyone saying that this was systematic and intentional, rather than merely scratching irritating itches. If nothing else, my bringing this up got Mike to say that he was doing it, and EDE to say that he endorsed this, which was more than we'd had before.

~ The mods still ought to provide definitions, and the sooner the better, for "spam." Yes, common sense ought to reign, but that still doesn't prevent being arbitrary.

~ I realize this is largely work-it-out-as-you-go. Yet when an issue is brought up, it'd help if it were dealt with fairly soon. No mods have answered my query about whether Legion graphics may be posted, and what happens with a double post. I hope they'll deal with it shortly.

~ I appreciate what the moderators are doing, and thank them for paying such attention. I hold no sour grapes for not having been chosen as one of them. I think they may have underestimated what the role involved, though.

~ I would have preferred the odds against my having been chosen to be yet greater -- because four moderators, in my experience, are too many for a group of this size. (Unless they essentially do little or nothing, and if you now want to monitor spam, that has changed.) Two would work better for consistency in what they are doing.

~ I have nothing as such against TD, even over her desire for privacy. (Though the degree of such desire makes me wonder why those like her are on the Net at all.) I simply don't see her being this reclusive as providing the trust needed to be a proper moderator -- if you're making active changes to traffic. That opinion comes from my having been a mod and supervisor of mods in a half-dozen venues over 20 years. I'm sticking to it, but I won't keep mentioning it.

~ Is every thread that wanders thus "hijacked," as such? That puts a harsh gloss, I'd say, on making asides or asking a question.

~ I'll chill.