Shambles uses the phrase 'our forum' a lot and I suspect that he deliberately chooses those words. However, and I am not a particularly regular poster, I was under the impression that this wasn't a co-operatively owned forum, but a sort of gift - not a complete gift, but something one had to look after, show that one knew how to look after or the owner would step in and take over - seems reasonable to me...(waffling now, but I know what I mean...)

The forum is (or was) a very fine gift. Max expressed the attitude of creating a garden for us to go play in. To me he always seemed honestly baffled that we couldn't just go and do that. He expected contributors to the forum to sort out the problems for themselves but was always being requested to step in and stop this or that terrible thing from happening or to prevent this or that poster from posting.

All of the things that have been undertaken to protect us have and are being done by fine people and for the very best of reasons. I am simply asking folk to take an objective view of where the forum is now and question if it really has to be this way?