Just for the third-parties reading this thread, let me say I've never whined to Jim or John about the forum. I just happen to agree with the changes made (although I'm sympathetic to the other side). Moreover, I donated somewhere between $50 and $1 million during the last fundraising cycle. I'm no steenkin Freeploader. ;-)
Well, I didn't complain because I liked it the way it was. Now, it turns out complaints were being taken, and I, who also donated between $40 and $1 Million, was never told about it. My silence was taken not as affirmation of the way things were, but that I would be overjoyed to see the forum split up.
A hell of a way to run a railroad, if you ask me. Which nobody asked me.