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You're absolutely right, Shambles. It isn't too cumbersome to send a personal message (and wait for a response) when there's a reason to do it, but is there a reason to go through a permission process to simply add a date to an obit, or a location to a gig thread, or a song title to a lyrics request? It isn't too cumbersome to address you as "Shambles (may your name be forever hallowed)" - but to do it EVERY time, with no copy-paste allowed, would become cumbersome in short order.
-Joe Offer-

I can accept no real excuse for why other known volunteers prefer not to take the little time and trouble required to undertake properly - their role of 'facilitating'. As Max chooses not to sit in judgement upon posters and has stated the word 'faciltate' to describe his approach - I can see no reason why any volunteer (anonymous or otherwise) should see themselves as qualified to be seen as any more than this.

Perhaps some new volunteers can be recruited who are prepared to go that 'extra mile' to ensure that posters always feel their contributions to given the value and respectand would not think time taken to do this this would be 'cumbersome'.   

I would suggest the point is rather that anonymous volunteers cannot send PMs and still remain anonymous. For quite why the divisive ability to feel qualified to imposed judgement upon fellow posters yet remain anonymous - is defended - is still a puzzle to me? Perhaps this can be given a re-think - if only for the reason that this prevents them from sending a PM that would prevent the need for them to impose their judgement upon an orinator's thread title?