"..So, Mudcat is an experiment in operating things under the flexible principles of judgment, intelligence, trust, and good will."

and like all experiments, the controls must constantly be re-evaluated....total freedom is a fine idea until it gets abused, and then ....well, you put locks on your doors, and hire cops, and have a juducial system of some sort....and then you worry about honest locksmiths, complain about the police force, and debate the rules for appointing judges.

What this place is, is not a 'democracy', but a sort of experiment in "benevolent dictatorship"