I'd think the odds are high that not every single comment made in brown text (etc.) reflects exactly how Max himself might have done something (and Max might have been more or less polite for all I know). To suggest it would be, to me would be like thinking a shop assistant may have dealt in every case with customers exactly as the owner of the shop would. It's not (to me) really likely.

I believe what you look at is an overall satisfaction and I would assume for example that as Joe Offer has an edit button that there is general satisfacion in his carrying out of duties from Max.

Jon- As assumptions are the mother of all cock-ups - it is is safer for us never to assume anything. I am guided by the words of the sites owner expressed publicly on our forum and copied in this thread.

I have also contacted Max to express my appreciation for the part The Mudcat played (and is still playing) in the struggle to ensure that the right of everyone to freely express themselves musically is established in legislation here. Max did not respond with the sort of personal judgements, assumptions and accusations that we see here from some of our volunteer fellow posters. An attitude based on a lack of real information of the subject and one that has sadly become identified in many poster's minds with the PEL issue on our forum. A sad fact to be regretted and one which has not helped anyone.

It is difficult to see how any struggle for freedom of expression anywhere can now be debated or assisted on our forum when obtaining freedom of expression itself here is subject to the personal tastes of some of our fellow posters.