Hear, hear! This is the main reason I don't post in a great many places, as well. An antipathy for rules. Do I HAVE TO have a beta? Then, I won't do it. Do I HAVE TO watch my language/subject matter? Then I won't do that as well! Because for me, that would take the fun out of it, and writing is a source of fun for me. Sure, it would be great to have a lot of people read my stuff. But not if it isn't fun to get it to them in the first place.