I too appreciate all the unpaid hard work that everyone does to run this site. And I appreciate that trade-offs often have to be made behind the scenes that can't be discussed with everyone affected.

I am absolutely sure that the moderators and owners have done their best to try and balance the past against the future and to steer the ship in a direction that they believe will provide the highest net benefit to the most number of people. Change almost always creates losers as well as winners, so it was never the case that everyone was going to be happy.

But I am also disappointed that Reuben, K4POG et al have lost a route-to-market and that we have lost easy access to them. To operate effectively, every market needs liquidity and I sense ours has just tightened. Only time will tell whether it has gone too far.

I will watch and see how things develop, and fervently hope that the majority of the bets pay off.

(Another) Duncan