You could be right, Jon, about the rows continuing. It looks to me like one of the problems is that the different groups of people with different ideas about how things should be here are so completely invested in their own version of what this place should be, there is no room for compromise.

It looks to me like each group thinks that they will lose everything if they compromise about anything. And so no one is willing to compromise at all.

I think what katlaughing said about the person being afraid to post something in the forum does an excellent job of illustrating what I was saying about politics squeezing the life out of the Mudcat. When people become afraid to post to the forum, the Mudcat is in trouble.