Personally, I would welcome a change to members only forum.

Care to explain why our forum should be changed to suit your requirements and why you and others who feel this way, cannot find an existing one to suit these requirements?

Personally, I think they should continue to be involved as much as they wish. I don't think that there is a problem here.

Why do you think that? Can our forum really be expected to accept that any 'moderator' with such an agenda, to provide their best efforts to make the current policy work?

Personally, I don't feel that there is any problem and Shambles is taking this out of context.

Why do you not see this as problem?

My view that it was bad enough that a few posters were shaping our forum to their requirements - but when the (for the record) statement was made and it was clear that this agenda would be pushed by these few until Max felt he had little choice.

And it was in trying to inform our forum of this and trying to enable it to be discussed (when others were trying to ensure that it was not) that has resulted in the restrictions being imposed on my posting.

No it is very much in context.