I was writing the above while you were writing blue, and that was obviously without seeing your reply.
Will try and answer some of your points there, as I think a lot of the things you say are completely correct.
I am really hoping this doesn't get me banned.
But having read the last few posts that have been locked, there seems to have been a fundemental shift in the way the mods are locking posts. I may be mistaken, but it seems anything critical of what is going on in this site is locked.
Lee of gingerjolee made a very valid point. The post was then locked.
A member was apparentl;y banned, but then after contacting admin he was unbanned. His opening line was "i have paid my £50" which leads to the point that do paying members here have more lateral than us regulars?
But what i am really saying is this - that SH isn't what we know. Most of us regulars, some bloody good people, hardly touch this site with a barge pole now. This entire forum is dying. The people who held this site together have been left high and dry and don't even know how the Moderators will react.
Personally, I am sick of it. I am only a member for one reason, and I have stated that elsewhere. But presuming at least a couple of Mods see this, before it is dragged down, why are you Modding in here? This site ISN'T anything remotely like it was, any simpleton can spot it. WHO are you modding for? Because one cursory look at the names logged in shows you no one you recognise.
To me , to be 100% honest. I thought you lot had more backbone. If you want to Mod on a site this means dealing with and possibly being over-ruled because the person you banned has paid money, then , i guess thats what you are happy with.
For the rest of us, who have moved on elsewhere, I'll just say this: the Mods who aren't modding on this site have a better grip of reality.
Yep, this is a moan. Yep you can lock it for that reason, because that seems to be the common currency these days. But I hope you don't.
Like a lot of us... North Star is pissed off.
Can't blame him for moving on......
.... I am ony here so I can keep in with the munches. Until they die a death and move on to the other free sites.