*makes a rare serious post*

Shooting down threads in Feedback, in my case, is just a joke. Most of the suggestions here I don't agree with. When someone makes a valid suggestion I give it a valid response. See? See?

Posting in already-closed threads and other forms of "abusing power" is 100% stress relief in my case. SOMETHING about being an admin has to be fun. I'm sure you understand this Bleys. Who here changed everyone's style to ed's technicolor nightmare?

I do respect mostly everyone here. I respect the members, which is why I continue to do this job. Even though I always say things like I ignore name requests and stuff, I don't actually do those sorts of things. I still like this MB, even though it's quite different than it used to be. I respect the staff enough that I will do what they wish, even when it's not what I wish.

Bleys, look at my very first post in this thread.

[qq=Me]"Swearing = bad" has been the rule since the beginning. We never enforced it strictly because people didn't behave like 10-year-olds; people had respect enough not to belch profanities in every post. Bleys himself refrained from swearing here, for that very reason: RESPECT FOR OTHERS.[/qq]

You are 100% right, we got (get) along well because we respected each other. I don't have a problem with people swearing, per se. I have a problem with people being disrespectful. You tried not to swear, and I tried not to care when you did. Respecting each others' beliefs. I've never edited one of your posts here, and you've sometimes said some fairly editable things.

That's not the same as what people are doing today. Look at this post: http://www.eyesonff.com/forums/showp...5&postcount=36

Now someone tell me, does this show respect? Given this entire huge thread, where the staff have made our views clear, what are we to do with this kind of thing, short of going into Nazi enforcement mode? I hope you can see how I can become a bit discouraged. I'm being forced into making decisions I don't want to make. In this case I choose to do nothing, because I don't think that doing anything will make a difference.

Every time the MB has ever been in my opinion "good", one single thing was true: Everyone was nice to each other voluntarily. Short of that, we're screwed. I can't ban half the MB. Rather I can, but I don't, out of respect for the members and respect for staff, which would disapprove. I'm now in the minority on staff when it comes to the issue of swearing. I act like I don't care sometimes, because I don't. If I cared this place would make me quite sad sometimes. Just sometimes, but still.

I'm sorry to say, I have a lot of more important things to care about as of late. I try to keep the place going enough so that the good people here can still have a place to talk, and in hopes that the disrespectful people will one day shut up or leave. I'm only speaking for myself here, not for anyone else, not for the staff as a whole.