[Bazooka_Joe]

OK, now let me sum up what I feel:

Sometime ago, within a year or so I'd say, the AA.COM forums have gone down the toilet. Mainly Offtopic, but the forums themselves have changed. This has been for many reasons; the MOH community getting angry from lack of support from EA for various issues, mods & admins leaving their positions from the forums, new people coming on and old people leaving, etc. Mainly, it's just everyones clash of additude towards particular issues.

I gladly took the modding position knowing what had to be done; make sure Offtopic dosen't collapse to a hell-hole of arguements and spam. Even at the time before I was mod, Rudedog PM'ed me saying "Hopefully you can become a mod soon, I need the backup in the Offtopic". I really thought I could help out cleaning the bad posts just as much as I try to help people in the GD section with problems with MOH.

If you noticed, alot of the other mods really don't bother with posting here much anymore. Alot of the older vets here, the guys from OTD, LLC, DOA, KaoS, they have all moved away from these forums. They don't like the community that is hosted here, along with the fact that no one is really around the clean up the issue. This is not only posts by rude members, but maintenance of the PHP database, too. I was offered to help sponsor forums from other websites, including PMOH.COM. But, I turned it down simply because AA.COM has been my home since JAN 2002.

Now, I am the only one really here who is locking posts and deleting stuff that dosen't belong. Wookie helps out occasionally when I email him, and so does Rude, and Spooge, but I right now am the only one who wants all the crap here to stop. We've all went over a revised rule list that we sent to BadScript about 3 times now, seeking approval, with no responce. Along with this, requests to maintain the forums, or elect new admins/mods, still no responce.

As badly as you want these forums cleaned Noctis, I want the same. But I'll tell you now; if I were to take my mod privs away, things would only get worse here, I promise you that. Which is why I will not take away the rights, unless they are taken from me. I'm sorry, but this is my home away from home on my freetime, and I refuse to let it die from people wanted to do as they please. There are places to post porn, constant curses, talking about cheats and hacks, but unfortuneatly, AA.COM isn't one of them.