Richie - We will not delete your post. NO ONE is protected on this site. But when you or anyone else directs a comment at anther user we will get involved. It is very simple. If that doesn't work for ANYONE then that person should unsubscribe from the political forum.

If anyone has a comment that they want to direct to the 'powers to be' which is Admin/Moderators/Owners it needs to be done privately or the user account will be suspended. We don't 'air' when we do corrective actions with specific users publicly on the site and ask for the same respect in return if you have a comment to make about the site ownership or moderation.

We don't moderate opinions. It is a private site and a user account is requested, terms of service agreed to, and then the powers to be decide to issue the user account. If everyone would follow rule #1 - Do not direct comments toward another user I'd pick up about 7 hours a week of time.

Also Richie - if anyone else would have made a negative comment about the moderators or administrators (Power to Be) publicly I would ban their account because everyone knows how to contact us privately to express concern about something the powers to be are doing or have done. Since you have been on the site since 2009 and have over 5k post I'm taking that into consideration and treating it different than someone who hasn't contributed so much over the years. I hope no one feels that I'm protecting you but I believe it is the right thing to do.

This thread is close so we can spend time focusing on improving the site.