Originally posted by Cryptic
I know this isn't really my place, but it makes me sad to see things come to this. I, for one, miss the class 
Me too.....I've seen more of the moderators the past few weeks than I have in my many years on the board. Hell, I didn't even know who they were until recently.
Obviously this is not directed at Cryptic, but I hafta say it:
It seems like some people aren't getting the point yet. You don't need to find members to rally around you and sign an e-mail petition to change the rules. The rules are the rules. This is not a democracy. Your parents might have let you do whatever you felt like growing up, but when you get into the real world you'll find that life just isn't fair. Bosses make you do stuff you don't want to do, laws are imposed upon you, and you're actually held accountable for your own actions. It's called "adulthood".
What you need to do is buy your own domain, a server, some bandwidth, and start your own board with your own rules. The possibilities are ENDLESS - it's the INTERNET. Do your part to make it a little bigger. It honestly is not that hard. The hard part is keeping the environment what you had intended it to be. Your goals are pretty low, though, so it shouldn't be much of a challenge. You can have a "Made up Kills" , a "Kills with my Work Van" section, a "Look at how stupid I made the ricers look" section, and a "Member-Moderator Cage Match" section. You can wallow through the thousands of pissing contests, off-topic posts, and obscenities to find a couple of relevant posts that might actually be helpful.
But help and camaraderie wouldn't be an objective of this new board, so it shouldn't matter anyway. You think you could get 7,000 people to want to be a part of that circus? I doubt it. In a few months, it would be like the many ghost boards haunting the 'Net these days.
Jim
