All the rulesf**s, the a-holery is getting old. GS is worth $2 Billion, I understand the concept of protecting a reputation. But the constraints placed on the community will be its downfall. UCBs were destroyed by unions. Discussion was destroyed by the mods taking over roll call and the end of a community concept. Everyone knows something is wrong but all we can say is that it are the rules. they allowed us to partially censor bypass to give the illusion that the rules have laxed, yet it's not like anybody couldn't figure out what **** meant in context. More lights and mirrors. The old days - we remember the personalities that made it great. Yet I'm sure that the people we have today are JUST AS GOOD. But with the end of discussion in the name of discussion, we're f***ed. Nobody reads your blog. That's a cop-out to create the illusion that GS sees its users as real people, same thing with the mod-controlled Roll Calls. Thread hijacking, thank you Kcube for helping me make OT great for one evening. Thread hijacking let us make a CONNECTION to a user. So people started branching off into new sites, OT2, OT3, OT4... and failed to secure themselves from the same fate. It's not censoring your posts that killed the community - that never really changed anything. It's censoring your ability to communicate freely. The new sites became clique-y no-holds barred **** where everyone who is 'in' was made to feel welcome and modpowers were given away like candy. Meanwhile nobody is made to feel welcome because we fail to remember that the new folks are just as good when given a chance. So let me ask you guys: what is it you are holding on to in your old cliques? Get rid of the 'discussion' in the title 'Off-Topic Discussion' or call it 'Random Discussion' and things will be fine (why do you think only girl, politics, music, and religion threads survive?) You don't have to heed me.. the forum is doomed otherwise. But when the time comes, you'll know what went wrong.