No, Spaw, you can't control it. And maybe I would be hard pressed to define it as well. But the Mudcat isn't the real world. It's a website owned by Max, and it exists because he has decided that it will. He can just as easily decide that it won't exist.

So I guess what I'm most concerned with is what happens when the people who post here become such a pain in the ass for him, as has happened on several occasions in just in the few months since I've been here, that he starts questioning whether or not he want's to continue to put his time, energies, and money into keeping it going.

Maybe, every time we post, we shouldn't be thinking, "is this going to hurt the person I'm writing it to". Maybe we should be thinking, is this going to cause a pain in the ass for Max.

Carol