Ah, but the volunteers ARE accountable, and they are known - to Max, and Jeff, and Joe. They just aren't directly accountable to the entire Forum. That would get too confusing, and it would make it too easy for people to play one volunteer against another and to box our volunteers into contradictions. That's why we have only three people who have decision authority, and two of those three answer to Max and defer to him on certain matters. All editing decisions by other volunteers are done in consultation with one of the three of us.

It's a very common system of organization. It means that if you have a question, you know whom to contact - Max for ultimately important decisions, and Jeff and Joe for day-to-day things.

-Joe Offer-