Agreed to a point - but that doorwork must surely be far more than 'occasional' given the traffic through here. It's also pretty inconsistent.
One of the problems, maybe, is that the way the Mudcat is set up is quaintly old-fashioned.
Most discussion forums now seem to be phpBB or similar, and to be moderated (with the moderating team for each topic generally named and contactable - which allows all users to alert them to offensive posts). Most don't allow guest posting, or at the very least restrict it.
But this is all old ground, I suppose. Maybe Max will reconsider, but at the same time I can't blame him - it would take a fair amount of midnight oil to migrate the forum to a new format, and the poor guy does have a life.
So perhaps the best approach is to treat this place the way we treat life - it might stink sometimes, it might be unfair, but it's the only one we've got, so make the best of it...