Peter T,

With all due respect, I find your ideas a bit too fatalistic for my sensibilities.

I find they also disregard the possibilities of changing both the group dynamic and/or the group consensus.

I seem to recall you are one who believes the group dynamic at Mudcat hasn't changed since it's inception? Or was it that you suggested there was no golden age? Whatever the case, I don't think the impulse to make the forum a better, more enjoyable, inclusive forum is a waste of time.

Many here may have sensed the dysfunctional group dynamics being discussed in these threads, but not been able to articulate their perceptions in such a way as to be easily understood by others. That is why having conversations like this is important. Before we can change a group dynamic, we first need to know what the dynamic is, and understand how it works.

Some of us appreciate the insights and perceptions both members and guests are feeling emboldened enough to share in these threads. It feels to me like a long-overdue airing of the house after a long, stagnant, suffocating period with all the doors and windows closed.