" What the fuck are these "founding principles?"

If anyone really needs to ask (and using such language to do it) - they are sure to find a welcome in the new private members club that the Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team are going to start.

The founding priciples of this new club would appear to require its members to be as intolerant and as unpleasant as possible and to encourage them to gang-up and bully anyone who may not be in total agreement.

The founding principles of Max's forum were (and to the best of my knowledge hope still are) to enable all the public's different views to be accomodated and for these to be safely expressed without them being subject to and inhibited by bullying.