For me, the whole vibe of these forums changed with the advent of the hosts.
I'd much rather we all ponied up a bit more for our annual membership/subscription plan for SONAR so Cakewalk could afford to have employees police these forums.
I'll happily concede that in retrospect, they did make a few excellent choices of host, but then again, they made a few absolute howlers too. I'll have the common decency not to name names, but let's just say that giving people who
already (and quite obviously) enjoy pushing others around and preaching down to them the authority to do so 'legitimately', and with absolute impunity, is never a good idea.
But it is what it is....