1.) "Those of us who do consider our forum is still a pleasant place to hang out and goof off or have a good discussion, who like our forum and who don't see merits in a change to members only forum, may be disapointed and confused about the current and future direction of our forum. "
Granted.   Is there anyone else out there who may be confused? I would ask that anonymous guests do not reply to my question because it would be very easy to make acccusations that those replies are coming from one person.   If you are a MEMBER of this forum, do you agree with Shambles statement that you don't see merits in a change to members only forum?

Personally, I would welcome a change to members only forum.


I AGREE WITH YOU RON. - It would be refreshing to KNOW who is making statements and might just lead to less nastiness from those who, whilst they may be members, are too chicken to post unpleasantness under their own names.


2)"They may question if the 'best efforts' of our 'moderators' are really being made to continue to make Max's posting policy work, or to show that it cannot - in order to serve their own, quite different agenda."
Does anyone feel that the moderators should not be participating?   

Personally, I think they should continue to be involved as much as they wish. I don't think that there is a problem here.


I AGREE WITH YOU RON - I have never had a problem with any of the moderators and, when they have altered my thread titles I have seen the logic in the change.


3)"Especially as the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team - who made the following (for the record) statement and despite its lack of implementation since then - is still publicly posting about these changes being his required solution to the sad situation he describes (but will not solve for himself, and other, by going elsewhere)."
Does anyone feel that Joe is causing a problem?

Personally, I don't feel that there is any problem and Shambles is taking this out of context.


I AGREE WITH YOU RON - Joe does an excellent job, given the work he does on the site as a whole. I, personally, have no beef with what he does.