Rules, rules, rules. Laying down rules on what someone can or cannot write in a thread is, the fruits of a group of people who 'are control freaks' and now that they have their little 'irish thread' with Belfast in their now, they somehow feel compelled to set up a constitution on what one can or cannot write. You have turned a freedom of speech forum into a controlled and watched environment. The 'skybar' is a light hearted 'pub talk' environment, read other skybars. Pub talk is what ever one wants to discuss (as long as foul/offensive language, bigotry, hatred etc is not used). However you guys have turned this into a pub were the Landlord has a veto on what we say. Good idea setting up a political thread. I think most people if they want to write a political post they will put in that particular thread. But to keep going on about you can or cannot say, has turned this whole thred into a controlled shambles. The Belfast thread functioned very well on its own for well over a year, with no one complaining or trying to control the situation. See yah