Nothing personal Hope, but I feel that any discussion or concerns I might want to bring to you can and should be discussed in the public view. One reason (or perhaps the main reason) is because any such discussion would be beneficial to the other members of the site, who IMO have a right to hear whatever either of us bring up. The only possible exception being personal issues on your end or mine, which I cannot imagine would come up, esp. since your level of experience (would be different if you were only admin for 4 months or less), age, etc. are not relevant to me (I have not slammed or questioned either, because I take no issue with either of them or any other possible personal issue that I can possibly think of) And while yes, plenty of my discontent, frustration, even hostility is directed at the decisions you have made during this latest issue, far, far more of it is directed towards TPtB. After all, it is not you nor any other forum admin who get the final say on major policies like this, and you most certainly don't get much if any say in their neutering of Prime.

Maybe behind the scenes you are running these concerns by TPtB-- for all I know, you might personally agree with some of our grievances and disagree with some of TPtB's decisions. Problem is, that is not how it looks to us. We have not seen any "I do agree with your point about ____" or "I will run this by the top admin" or anything like that-- which for all I know they do not allow you to say such things-- but that is not how it appears to those of us on the forums, especially when you and a few other admins have been so adamant in your defense of the off-site linking ban. It makes no difference if your hands are tied over making any such responses or not-- the fact is that most people will perceive you to think and act exactly how I have described that you come across, and no amount of benefit of a doubt by me will change that, esp. if my tongue (fingers?) is tied by PM confidentiality.

It might be worth mention that I wonder if perhaps UVDan does not support this decision-- or if he does, is very sad about it-- he has an off-site free programs thread (and IIRC other off-site links stuff as well) and has been (as far as I know) interestingly silent about this. This is merely rhetorical BTW, and I'm not asking for an answer from you or him (unless he wants to)