Everything I have read makes me supect that fans would be nightmarish as owners - ok for small scale niche stuff, but not for a giant archive project. Equally, lots of fans are loud but poor, which isn't a lot of use in buying stock.

I'd rather that fans' loudness got used to participate or contribute to discussions.

What worries me about some of this is a sense of biting the hand that feeds. Six Apart seems like a reasonably corporate overlord that occasionally makes crap decisions; but in spite of what I'm reading everywhere, they're coming over to me at least, as fairly supportive of fans' activities.