The bigger picture here is that we are all guests in Max's house. It's his time invested in creating and maintaining this place, his computers, and his forum.

Those of you who don't contribute any of your time to help improve or enhance this place; or contribute towards the ideals that this place is founded upon; or share useful or helpful knowledge from time to time; or even contribute financially once in a while....are in my opinion nothing more than free-loaders and therefore have no right to complain about anything that goes on here.

If you're going to be a free-loader whether as a member or as some GUEST-ANON, have some class, respect and a little empathy for the other human beings on this forum who do make valid contributions in their own way or at least through their actions have demonstrated consistent well-meaning intent.

Freeloaders who complain here, to my way of thinking, are analogous to attending a Mudcat gathering at someone's place who's opened their home to all, and they show up with nothing in their arms (whether a case of beer, a bottle of wine or single malt Scotch, a food dish, flowers or plant, an instrument or a voice to share music with....whatever) and all they do is whine and complain about the food or lack of this or lack of that, or how much so and so annoys them and what are THEY doing here?.......and that basically the world owes me! The world doesn't owe you squat. You reap what you sew.
We've already got moderators here. They're called Joe Clones. Moderation is a form of censorship. I'm in favour of it here, and I think it could even be taken a few steps further. I think that members who abuse the privilege of being a guest in this house, by inciting hurtful, belligerent and malicious content (as GUESTS) directed through a cloak of secrecy should be warned once privately, and if this behavior continues un-checked they should be outed.

Given the fact that Max knows precisely the IP addresses of all who visit here, there is no true anonymity here (as he mentioned in a previous thread recently.) And he's entirely justified in having this information at his disposal in exactly the same way that you would want to know who's in "your house" at any given time.

Divisive anarchy, if left unchecked and unmoderated here, could ultimately destroy what one Catter recently and so aptly referred to as "the best place on the Internet".
I know from what I speak and I'll leave it at that.