As far as imposition - Max reserves the right to edit, delete, etc any posting to this forum. By posting you are agreeing to those terms, as indeed you are agreeing to those terms when you post to ANY private site. Therefore, unless you are a complete and utter imbicile, any editing or deletion should be no surprise. NOR is the posters permission or notification either desirable or needed.

Perhaps you may agree that this 'like it or lump it' attitude you spell-out here - had it been the original approach when our forum first started - would have resulted in many good posters deciding to 'lump it' long ago and long before many now appear to have done?   

This was once a forum that openly encouraged all forms of contributor and all forms of contributions. It now appears to be moving towards one that is obsessed with secrecy and with finding ways to judge the worth of contributors and of preventing contributions.