For the long-timers on Max, change is hard. We (or at least me) develop a routine on the forum. We know what we're looking for, and who, and we know what to ignore. Admittedly, this isn't particularly conducive to occasional users.

Forum moderators are good for heading off flame wars, though the best defense against real trolls is simply to ignore them. However, that's really hard to do because everybody wants to be a moderator at their convenience and that keeps the trolls well fed.

What Max needs isn't moderation, since that doesn't really do a lot of good. It needs administration - someone who will take care of technical problems promptly. It seems that this is something that Domina Ms is trying to keep up with, and that's a good thing.

It's hard to understand what Max Fisch is these days. It's, for sure, a place for a few dozen hard core forum members to hang out, but if it's actually a business any more, it isn't a very good one. With the difficulties in registering new members plus the difficulty in obtaining commercial advertising, what's in it for the owners?

If an owner could be identified, perhaps Domina Ms could make an offer they can't refuse - a bulk buyout of the entire data base with everyone registered on Max Fisch would, overnight, magically, become a registered user here, with the only change being a new bookmark to add to the user's web browser.

I can only wish.