Sorcha: personal opinion: you either fix something or forget it.
I don't want to hear about personal molehills from maybe over a year ago that have been filling a mountain-sized vacuum and keep expanding, and are dragged out whenever an excuse is needed to smack somebody. If you want to have a personal grudge against somebody, the rest of Mudcat and the part of the world that reads Mudcat probably does NOT want to hear about it.

Fix it or forget it, because refusing to do one of those things looks like you enjoy the grudge. Maybe you do and maybe a few others at Mudcat like having a reliable target, a scapegoat, but I don't. I think the BS side of Mudcat has come to be about who are our enemies and who are our friends, and that's mostly what drives some of our opinions. I don't like that, but I'm just one voice.

Everybody (admins) is watching everybody (although we only speculate about who's doing what) and Max is watching us all. I couldn't be happier that he's re-surfaced. As an admin, I feel we admins need supervision. It's not good for folks to not know there's an appeal authority and it's not good for us (admins) to not have an appeal authority or someone to go to with questions or complaints. I don't usually have many questions, but just knowing there is a Max reassures me. I was talking to someone yesterday and the phrase 'power vacuum' came up. That's exactly what's happened at Mudcat. Some saw a need for authority and no authority, so they jumped in.