Sure, I'll remain civil too. I don't think it'll spawn into another argument because there there isn't much to argue about.
Not sure how you saw that as hypocrisy, I did write my intention was for you to realize the ramifications of your behavior. "I'll make my impression of the community representative of what that KR user must've felt when he entered here."
As for the issue with the application, I did say it before, you were the only one seriously talking about an application in that thread. Everyone else was talking about keeping spies out and protecting the forum, there was no misunderstanding. That issue came up again after things were patched for you guys. I can get the thread if you didn't see it.
As for the voluntary part, same thing as my previous paragraph. The general idea was to privatize the forum. Read the thread again, you proposed the idea of the application and some people may have commented on it, but the rest of them were thinking of criteria to let people access the forum.
As for the rest and what I could've simply wrote instead of the above paragraphs, I would like you to consider my viewpoint. The only reason why you would've bothered to seriously look into my work and write your post is because HFS mods are now broken. I gave fair warning about this and suggested a shift in priorities and rather than consider the possibility I would be right, well...we know what happened.
Given the timing of your post and the fact that there were absolutely no attempts at resolving the situation when that mess happened (in fact, you and others had made it worse), I'm not sure how there could be any expectation that I would reconsider my stance.