the practical difference is that as a private site posters have no right to free speech - and Max (or his appointed designees) have the right to edit, delete, modify, etc any content whatsoever. On a truly public site this is not so.

I think you would agree that our forum has not become mine, yours or Joe Offer's?

Agreed - noting that "our" in feference to the forum is more or less rhetorical - because it is and always has been Max's.

Will you accept the fact that Max *has* set the rules as they are applied? Because I assure you - he has.