The management did a nice job of editing out a verse of my poem, On later reflection, it was the sensible thing to do [thanks] as I was unable to edit it out myself [the 1/2 hour edit rule]. The verse was a sexist caricature. I must remember we have female visitors here. The poem still 'works' without the offending verse.

[QUOTE=Imagele Probably the "smoke police" at work[/QUOTE]Maybe the PC (politically correct) police Imagele.

Dear Sir/Madam,
I believe I can understand the commercial/legal interests of running a forum such as this. that is not to say I always agree with the degree of censorship but I can at least at times appreciate your reasoning (as Crash quite humbly agreed with).

I also believe that myself, like most of the other regular forum users are intelligent and do not deliberately intend to abuse the forum's rules. The infrequent "blow-ins"who try to peddle this and that or promote their own interests are quite correctly "dealt with".

Because of the above, I become frustrated when I cannot understand why particular threads suddenly go "missing". A brief post on the forum or a quick email to the member(s) involved would be most appreciated.

Kind Regards
David Walker (Even used my name so I must be serious)

I wouldn't worry about it too much Dave [as a big bloke I'm not fond of the word tubby anyway]. Moderators here are always kept busy. I can think of a few examples over the last couple of days most members here would not have even noticed. An explanation every time would turn a seriously thankless task into a seriously rotten task taking twice as long. I'm sure it's nothing personal.

Swore I wouldn't post again if that thread had been removed but:
It is particularly annoying when the whole thread is removed because of one or two unacceptable entries.
Smacks of gross arrogance in my books.
Regardless of anything else, this forum needs unpaid contributors to keep it alive or there would not be a forum.
Even though it's a racing forum, I welcomed a chance to hit back in a small way against the hypocrisy (hypocricy) of the cretins running the anti smoking movement.
Lots of punters are smokers and massive contributors to the tax cache of Australia.