Wayne,
Wayne Wayne Wayne...
You're trying to smack people around for doing what forums are all about. If you want to see bitching and whining, try stepping into a MajorMud forum for a while. I see no bitching and whining here. These are just opinions with the occasional suggestion thrown in. Yes, they're tactfully lacking in some cases and are radicalliy different than yours. You've got to expect a certain lack of tact with people who visit. It's just part of the job. That certainly doesn't give you the right to call people incompentent and accuse them of lacking basic comprehension. You've got good people here and yet you just can't help kicking them in the teeth. It's possible that you didn't get any help with the banner because it's an art form, and you're asking for someone to dedicate their effort with no guarantee of reward. You can't throw mud in everyone's face just because you didn't get any takers.
There's a responsibility on the part of a moderator, no matter what, to keep a cool and level head. I do it daily with some of the most rowdy forum visitors you'll ever encounter. You've got to have the right attitude, and quite frankly, you don't. If I had the same attitude you do when it comes to running my server, I'd have two people left on it: myself and Kent. I care greatly about the service I provide. I take pride in it, and I realize that its success is a teetering balance. Things I say and do determine whether or not I still have a service to offer tomorrow.
You cannot constantly insult the people who make your site what it is and expect everything to be hunky-dory forever and ever. You have a tendency to read into a lot of things, take things personally and just badger people for little or no reason. The first two you need to avoid at all costs. The latter is an absolute sin. Gracefully accepting what's being said and maybe asking and accepting a little advice once in a while will get you a lot further than the replies you've made in this thread and others.
Hopefully you'll take this in the spirit intended rather than as someone trying to belittle you. Believe me, I know all the headaches of the responsibilities of being host of a forum, especially the more active and hostile ones. It's important that you not take every criticism as a personal insult. I know they're not meant that way, at least on AO.
Roj - Moderator, Admin and General Housekeeper of CrestviewBBS, host of MajorMud, the greatest and most hostile gaming environment in the world.
P.S. I just got done talking to Kent about the old banner not being possible with the new layout. He's in the process of reworking it. This is just another example of your hard-headedness getting you into more trouble. I understand the problems with the old banner, but they're not that drastic. Geez, these are computers you're using. Anything is possible.
