What makes you think that any of this has to be defended at all?

It reamains a fact that there are constant attempts on our forum to defended and justify all of this (selective) imposed judgement. Why not ask those who make this attempt - why they feel they have to do this? Why do you appear to feel this need? Should this not be a matter for Max rather than you?

we're all playing in Max's house. He doesn't have to defend anything that goes on here by him or the people that he entrusts with the running of this site. Now THAT is really what is at the heart of my argument. As someone said earlier, we're not here because we have the right to be, we're here because we have that privlege.

Someone may have said this and we all may agree to some extent and be grateful but you seem to accept that it is the site's owner Max that should be our guide? Should we then take notice of Max's public words - rather than just ignore them and be encouraged by others to ignore them?