Dear Rats,

[ramAnag]

1. That i up to bloomer but we already have four moderators. It doesn't go to a vote to get ones mate on the board its entirely at the editors discretion. Then you don't get free reign any actions have to be agreed upon .... do you see where a number of assumptions come undone here!!!!

2. See the sticky thread if I ban for abuse nearly every poster will be banned for one reason (there are very few innocent parties) or another so I have drawn a line ..... one poster has already crossed it its up to others if they want to join them. If posters want to seek specific retribution then they will end up falling foul of this.

Does that answer your questions?

Frankly, 'no'.
Resent the implication about 'mates'. Andy wasn't initially suggested by me and I have 'mates' in real life not on a forum. Respect and being 'mates' are totally different things. I regularly disagree with Andy but we always manage it in a civil way and never resort to abuse. He appears to be someone capable of reasoned, joined up thought who is overwhelmingly fair...I respect that and would have thought they were essential qualities in a mod...nothing more!

If there are four mods, who are they? Bloomer's occasional observations aside all this forum ever hears is the gospel according to Rattea. If Ramondo is one of the mysterious four mods, I do - or did - have the greatest respect for him, but what is the point of a moderator who never appears on the forum or no one knows the names of? With all due respect you appear to be turning this forum into something of a dictatorship.

Don't understand your reference to the 'sticky thread'. The thread itself is barely comprehensible in all honesty and I have no idea who the one poster is but personally, seeing as I always try to use reason rather than abuse, I have nothing to fear...do I?

P.S. Just seen...you've banned Stenson for that! The lack of consistency now makes you seriously unfit for purpose imo.