DTT, writing purely as one of the site's admin, but by someone who also values your friendship.

Thank you for the invitation to edit your post, but it is one I will decline. Surprising as it may seem I very rarely edit posts.

I think, and I am open to correction here, the only time I edit posts, other than at the author's request, is to remove flaming, particularly where I do not believe that the author intended to flame. Although this did not apply in the past, (yes, thank you for your kind words, but I am on a steep learning curve) I now always PM the author, explain the whats and whys, and recognising that it is ultimately their post, it does not stay in forums in its edited condition without their consent.

I have made one such edit to one post in this thread, and the edit did not change the message of the post, and their is no trace of the edit since it was done soon after posting.

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To anyone who may be interested, within the life of this thread I have received a PM which talks of me being put in a tight spot because of loyalty to friends.

In my offline life I am used to dealing with conflicts, often involving people I know and like. Fortunately my training and experience of doing this enables me to be able to separate the two roles. Some while ago I was put in the position of banning someone with whose online company I enjoyed. I hated doing so, I was criticised by that person's friends for doing so, and accused of being disloyal to them. But they had broken site rules to the extent that the consequence was a lifetime ban, so I banned them. I still chat to that person on IM, but they know that if I ever see them step into here I will instantly take the correct action against them.

I am watching over this thread with same approach.

cariad