All rights come with responsibilities. Communities have growing pains just like any other living thing. One model compares the size of an organization and it's problems by personality. Small, insular and cat like... Medium, friendly and more like a collie... Large, diversifing and potentailly corporate and compartmentalized...The Basic folk personality doesn't to the last very well IMHO

Mudcat has grown at a phenomenal rate and once we take a name it's easy to forget we are all guests. There are no "taxes" to join or participate. There are no "service hours" to donate. It's presence is a gift and all we are asked to return is respect to each other. Joe is NOT an employee who's performance we are asked to review. He is NOT an elected offical who you can choose to recall. He is an extremely patient and mostly gentle man who gives of himself to maintain, corrall, and help form this place. Like all of us, at times he can irritate and annoy individuals, but I would guess more rarely than most. I've disagreeed with Joe, but I wouldn't take on this place if given it with full funding. I doubt many others would either.

Tinker