The mission of the site IS clear, at least to the majority, and the owner is not required to clarify anything on his private site, unless he wants to. There's over 10,000 members here. Many of us are paying subscribers. They can be, and are, from all walks of life. Both civilian and martial. Every once in a while someone doesn't follow the rules and gets their toes stepped on. Then they decide to air their grievances and take the Mods and site to task about how unfair, uncouth, untouchable, undereducated, infallible, etc, the staff is. They are normally joined by one or two other malcontents who rise up on their white chargers to defend the downtrodden member, before climbing upon their sanctimonious ivory perch. They post condescending, over the top, not to subtle sideways swipes at the staff and get all bent when their little ploy is called and beg forgiveness for being 'misunderstood'. Over 10,000 other members don't agree because, if they did, they would join in, but they don't.
Bottom line is this is a private site, owned by Mike Bobbitt. He sets the rules, he employs volunteer staff to enforce those rules. One option is for members to follow those rules and be valued members, or another option is not following the rules and leaving the site altogether, either voluntary or via the Warning System. The choice is the members decision.
The site has been running smoothly for a number of years. We still experience some growing pains. The staff is constantly reevaluating rules, guidelines and operations behind the scenes. We do consider every logical and presented suggestion. We don't spend time on self serving whines disguised as said suggestions. Rest assured, every person put on every level of the Warning System, is normally also discussed, and a concensus reached before action is taken.
So as per normal, we have discussed this problem again (no it's far from the first time. A simple search would have revealed that). It's quite often though that the same people that complain about having to search are the same ones that start these threads. Vicious circle of coincidence, n'est-ce pas?
The idea that Mods can't participate is a non starter. Don't waste bandwidth discussing it. Feeling hard done by here? Go over to SOCNET and try your shit. You'll soon find out what Roy was talking about. The Mods there make us look like pussycats.
If something is satisfying to over 10,000 members and not to a few, well, we have to go with the majority. If your not in that majority, I suggest you reevaluate what you're doing here.
That's my $00.02, I should be up to about $1.50 on this subject by now. It's also my personal opinion as a member here, and being such, I don't care one iota whether you like it or not.
