Guest, former member. I assume by the 2 tier system, you mean the introduction of the Guest tag. I believe this move was a very good move as it preveted the impersonation of members - an issue that would not even have cropped up if the open (as opposed to membership) posting had not been abused.

Guest, Payback... Max recently said "I keep hearing the members-only recommendation, but am not comfortable with that." ...

It has also been interesting to note that Max has acknowledged "The fact that long-time core members, who seem to have the most to offer us, are visiting less often" and that it bothers him. It is perhaps even more interesting to me that Max is planning on a filtering system to address some problems (not the approach I had tried to argue for but something that should have a similar effect).

It really does seem to me that Max is actually recognising problems and even though I doubted him (and worse) is probably trying to do things to try to help while the 1%Ers would just have it "all is OK anyone who says otherwise is bitter, drunk, mad or whatever" - the last thing they are capable of doing is anyalysing problems, facing up to the fact that they at times can contribute towards problems or looking to help come up with solutions (although they can give a rapturous "great Max" when a change is made)...

Jon (who is off to the pub now, hopefully to play some music)