OK, so possibly I'm just going to be poking at a sore here and making things worse but I really don't understand half the problems that Grey has here.

First off the editing. It's not been anything major. The posts that *have* been edited are all ones where something offensive/innappropriate has been removed or where people have made double posts and such. It's pretty much obvious just from looking at the edited posts that this is the case. Tjis being said then why exactly are you so concerned? Do you think the fact that you have had issues with some of the mods and other posters here (and they with you) means that they're going to start some personal vendetta and edit everything you post to make you look like an idiot. They have absolutely no need to do that, and no matter how they feel about you I doubt they'd do that in the first place.

This forum is a pretty much open one. Most things go, Rob puts no restrictions on what we post. But he also put four people in charge as moderaters. OK maybe they do need to post some guidelines as to what is going to be considered spam but until it actually became an issue and was dealt with spam hadn't really been considered by anyone. They're not editing you Grey (not that I've seen, I might be wrong about that), they are editing posts that are a problem. And even then it's not a huge amount of editing. If you do have a problem with the way they are behaving then really the first thing you should have done is contacted them personally. It's pretty much clear (especially from this thread) that you are pretty much the only person who has a problem here. Everyone else seems quite happy with the ay things are going and didn't even feel the need to question it. Like I say, for clarity maybe we should have some kind of guidelines. Just get off your high horse about the whole issue.

And as to whether we know who TD is or not. Well, quite frankly who gives a toss? I know you're name, I know what you look like because I've seena photo of you but do I really know who you are? If I went just from what you post I'd actually think you were some svelte Amerind with wings living in an embassy with a comic book character as a sister. Patently none of that is true. So does that mean I don't know who you are? Yup. Do I care that I don't know who you are? Nope.

Thing is I don't *really* know who most of the people on this board are. There are only a few I talk to often (via e-mail) and only a couple who I've actually met (Paul, Faraway and uh... I think that be it actually of the people who post here regularly). In the same way there are only a few people here who really know anything about me. Hands up who knows my surname? Or what my boyfriends name is? Or what kind of glasses I wear?

Same thing goes for what I know about LL or EDE or Loser. I don't really know much about any of them. I know I enjoy their posts, I know I like talking with them. I don't know where they live, I don't know what they look like and quite frankly I don't care. Not knowing who TD is doesn't make her any less viable as a moderater. The fact that she doesn't want to tell everyone about her private life doesn't make any difference. And why exactly does wanting to keep a degree of privacy mean that she shouldn't be on the net in the first place? You live in your own fantasy world, at least on the net, which is just as much a way of keeping your real life private as not saying anything at all is.

You say it's not sour grapes and maybe it's not. But point is you are aiming to stir things up again just because you seem to think that you are right, that you *have* to criticise what other people do. I know by posting this (which i admit is little more than a personal attack) pretty much makes my own point, about starting things like this privately with the people you have an issue with, a little moot but I know if I mailed you privately there would be no response at all. Other people might take to care to take issue with the things I've said and I'd be glad of that because I'd like to make sure that you really are the only person here who feels the way you do or if I'm letting my own personal feelings about you get in the way og things.

Anyway, rant over for now. Sorry to everyone else if this stirs up a whole hornets nest again but... well, it's early in the morning I have hideous hayfever and my neck is killing me (I've made an appointment to check it's not whiplash by the way) and I'm in a pissy mood. Possibly not the best time to post something like this but... well, fuck it.

Oh, and Good Morning LHQ.