it seems to be difficult for some...members and non-members alike....to accept that their views are in the minority. I do not agree with 'everything' Joe or Max has ever done and said...but I DO accept that they are the management, and I note that a large majority not only accepts that, but agrees with the decisions OF the management.

I accept that my views may be a minority, are we not all a minority of one. But since when has the Mudcat been a democracy or a grouping of like-thinking souls?

But as the originator of the post in question, I simply feel that my original view and wishes should have been respected or at least requested, before any asumption or decision was made. It was a small point, as I have said. It would appear to have become a larger point when it was seen to be challenge to the new management's authority.

Perhaps that is the problem, I was not aware that there had been a change of management ethos and that Joe alone was that management. But Bill you then refer to Max running his own website and me nagging him to do things my way. Not so, It is rather that I expecting Joe to do it Max's way......

The PEL campaign is about the freedom of expression, and so is this. It is also about people in authority who think they have obtained a position where they don't have to listen to perfectly reasonable requests and feel they know what is best to impose on everyone else.

Those actively fighting the on PEL issue are indeed being well served and supported by the Mudcat. This has been acknowledged more than once by me in this thread. I think it would be fair to say however that Joe has largely been responsible for publicly creating the idea, or at least making it appear to be a respectable view, that The Mudcat, for various reasons, was not really the place for this subject. A point he has again unnecessarily made in this thread.

Is this view management policy also, or Joe's personal view and is there a difference, for Joe's personal opinions and digs, appear in both Big Brother brown and in black. That is the problem I have, for I can argue with you Bill (as we have many times) and you are not going be able to put on your management hat and say this is the final decision.....

Not everything on the forum will ever be to everyone's sense of order or taste, but do we really want everything to taste the same?