You couldn't pay me to. I imagine being on the council is quite similar to not being on the council, only with the addition of another mailing list to create more penis enlargement spam for my inbox (for which I'm already quite satisfied with my equipment thank you very much). !@#$%^&*, it took well over a year for them to wake up and realise we didn't have any representation since DoCk> jumped ship. Not that we weren't doing fine on our own the entire time, albeit the lack of coders. So MG missing SVS, boo-!@#$%^&*ing-hoo. DoCk> left us in the lurch without any notice, but did you see us crying over it? Rather than sitting on our arses praying for a second coming, we took charge with what resources we had and made good with them. We operate without any full-time sysop and we've hardly suffered for it. I expect no less from MG if the zone has any testicles whatsoever. Face it, no one is coming to your rescue when everyone else is already too involved with their own little corner of the Continuum universe. You can preach all that SSC unity bull!@#$%^&* until the cows come home, but at the end of the day nothing has or will change in that department. Just hurry up and select the replacement NetOp before the backlog of work (a good portion of which comes from me I imagine) snowballs out of control for the poor sucker who unwittingly stuck their hand up for it expecting bonus street credits.