"GUEST 12-Feb-02 - 02:46 PM": Your assertion that there is a "perception that guests are the problem in Mudcat, rather than jerks" and that it "is one fostered and sustained by Max himself" is disproven by the post by Max that I quoted just before you responded to me – the one that says, "It's not even about GUESTS, it is about common decency, members and GUESTS alike."

The post by Max in his thread "An Open Letter from Max to GUESTS", that you refer to, is here: Post from Max, 10-Feb-02 - 05:46 PM

Now let's put the word "fuckhead" in context. What he said was, "God, you fuckhead GUESTS don't even bother reading things carefully before you start spitting bile. My post started with a very polite and humble request to chill out. I'm not surprised by your disdain to this idea, only those with something to lose would be opposed to accountability." The word "accountability" is key here because, as Max said in the post I quoted earlier on this thread, the members are accountable for their rudeness and they are contacted privately by the site administration, without perpetuating the public attacks. But the goal of the flaming GUESTs seems to be to perpetuate the public attacks ad infinitum without being held accountable for their actions.

As to your assertion that he called you "fuckheads" just because you criticized him, he also said in that post, "There is a difference between criticism and spite."

No, GUEST, Max called you "fuckheads" because, as he said in the same post, "I've been the biggest supporter of the open forum, and stood up for anonymity above all others. Turn it around any which way you want, but the fact stands that you fucked that up."

So there you go (perhaps literally, in the near future).