" It was just a request Clinton and not worth an argument is it?"
"wow do you argue everything"

No intention of arguing.... Dialogue from a different point of view isn't necessarily loaded with the negative connotations of argument....

Max... you are also a smart man... Even as little as I know you I know you're too smart to not realize that internet 'standards' have become those because those standards, through trial and error are what have proven to work best in this all too new medium.... In those respects Mudcat is a prehistoric relic of ancient times, where evolutionary cul-de-sacks sit around wavering camp-fires, hungry and shivering, waiting for the inevitable end....

"This is not every other message board on the net."
Oh please, Max.... Pointless idealism... Such will never, nor has ever kept a roof over anyone's head.... Lets talk about what is instead....

"I'm very likely to be here after their gone"
When you can't pay the bills? When your membership is as disgruntled as they are now, that is very very doubtful Max....   And even if you do survive.... Isn't it more important to THRIVE than to simply survive? Hooked up to the right machines, brain-dead corpses can be made to 'survive'....

"Flavorless so not to offend anyone."
That suggests to me you have precious little experience with other message boards... with other communities online.... EVERY message board out here thinks of itself as highly as Mudcat does.... They have JUST as much 'flavour', maybe even way more... There are dozens and dozens of message boards I can think of off the top of my head that are MUCH more vibrant than Mudcat is (especially of late) and one of the major reasons they are so successful is a well defined and enforced Code Of Conduct that membership is required to adhere to....   it keeps the trolls and the spammers and the ignoranuses out so that the community CAN thrive....

and well, your high-horse is showing....

"I have no interest in doing things their way"
Then you have to contend with what this place is going to change into without leadership.... without anyone at the helm.... Apparently, when left to it's own devices it wants to become more of a cesspool than anything else....

"money coming in has been thin so far this year"
Things are tough all over eh.... I know the feeling... and according to all economists I've heard from, things are only going to get worse....