Ali, Steve and Anthony, fair comment.
The thing is it's not simply a case of "It's my ball" - someone has to be in charge and make decisions otherwise arguments would go on until infinity.
The decisions we make as admin are never taken lightly - the situation is always carefully considered before we take any action such as locking threads, deleting/editing posts, or banning people, and any decision reached is always what we consider for the good of the forum and to maintain the friendly atmosphere we have created here.
I find the majority of Richard's posts interesting and often entertaining, but what I will not put up with is him referring to people as "wankers" (which I've had to delete from some of his posts recently) and "idiots", which was the comment directed at Rob. Now Rob is far from being an idiot and regardless of what went on beforehand he did not deserve to be insulted in that way - end of story.
If Richard can't make his point without resorting to insulting people then I'm afraid he won't be making any points, period. In future he needs to think more carefully about what he writes before hitting the send button, and I will thus be monitoring his future input very carefully. I am locking this thread now as the message is quite clear and I will not become involved in a tit-for-tat debate on the matter.
Marco.
