I kind of think a balance is necessary, yeah. On the one hand, care too much about the rules and everyone becomes a rules lawyer, and there's nothing even remotely fun about going to a place anymore. People lose their sense of humour, and no one really has a reason to keep coming to post. On the other hand, care too little and you have FFWA.

Generally speaking, I'm more with Unne than WesLY on this one. One very important reason I stopped going here for awhile is that the rules just weren't being enforced consistently anymore. Or at all.

That whole drama with Akuma happened because people were making snide comments about him intended to take the piss out of him, and no one bothered to do anything about it, causing it to snowball into a huge attention fest with Akuma at the center of it where he gained a huge ego because he thought they were actually SINCERE and suddenly started attention whoring himself to hell. Granted, I didn't really handle the situtation that well myself; I put more blame on him than he probably deserved.

Anyway. That's the sort of crap that happens when people have disagreements and the staff don't do anything to sort them out: DRAMA. It's better to do something about something BEFORE it becomes a huge problem. FFWA's an example where no one bothered to do anything for awhile, and suddenly they had a whole host of problems on themselves that no one can even solve because of past history. Just look in their General Chat these days; flaming is rampant, and no one really gives a trout because giving a trout just causes more backlash. The staff certainly don't care, and they'll jump down on your throat if you try to make them care. Everyone pretty much hates everyone else there, it's no wonder the place is falling apart.

You guys did a step in the right direction by combining World Events and Eyes on Each Other, in my opinion. Now don't hesitate to continue doing that sort of thing. You're staff for a reason, and how well you do that job is up to you, but when people come to the board and have difficulties, they'll want you to solve their problems. How well or how poorly you do it could, and probably will, make or break how well the board does in the future.