XPT, I don't think the thread was closed becaause of the topic, more for the negativity of jfc. His only posts seem to be to knock other peoples ideas rather than put up any ideas of his own. Sponsors of this website pay because they think that may get business from visitors to the site, if all they see is negativity to ideas then the visitors will go elsewhere, ( along with a few forum members) to other punting forums where this a bit more positive stuff and people dont get into slanging matches about who is right and who is wrong. The bottom line is if you are making a quid from whatever method you are using then then it is right for you. If you don't like other peoples ideas then say so and leave it at that rather than find little things to have a go at people for. I am not directing this comment at you as I appreciate the contributions you make to the forum by putting your ratings up for evrybody to use or not. XPT, you once wrote on a post that someone emailed abuse at you for not rating the price of a favourite short enough for them to place a bet on, and that the horse consequently won. It is this sort of pettyness that jfc is into and I am surprised that you have included him with your shot at management for this. I certainly think that the automatic editing has gone too far, but apart from that the moderators of this forum have a job to do in protecting the thier investment and for the most part I thinkthey do a reasonable job of it.