head-fi's ownership is entirely Judes. however, this site does operate a bit like a public/private space. the recent actions seem to have been taken on account that we may have ran away with the public aspect of the forum and had not taken into account it's private ownership.
The way it operates as a community that is open to everyone, with thousands of members, while maintaining it's speciality, has the affect of giving us the idea that WE are somehow part of head-fi and should express this as a matter of pride; thus the ever constant wanting of buttons and special headphones. yet, while us participants do contribute to the atmosphere of head-fi, part of which makes it attractive, we somehow forget that the internet is not magic, that this is not like any other site, where (like the LATimes website) we can go and a large corporation pays. this is privately owned and paid for and we should respect that.
Thanks Jude
David