ZD BACKUP POST:<br /><br />I hope a lot of this stuff happens. I really like the eagerness of people to put forth their ideas and hope the effort follows. I would say the track record of those posting is solid enough to merit some optimism. I&#039;m open to helping, so if you guys need resources pm me. I leave my irc on and I check it whenever I get a chance to sit down.<br /><br />[quote=&quot;Goatface&quot;]Threads need to stop being locked/erased.&nbsp; Open discussion is positive.[/quote]<br /><br />I believe what goat means is that the tendency up to this point is for moderators to to squelch any &quot;raw&quot; discussion unless it is in agreement or congress with those overseeing parties. And while a lot of this thread contains progressive and good ideas, the part 1 and totaltrash closing threads both brought up issues that NEED ADDRESS and were locked or deleted for doing so. Read my post and please keep in mind, I&#039;m posting things that would make doom a more fun place to play. It&#039;s in the same vein as a news page or a dev blog or how releases are handled. It&#039;s productive and I would ask that you let it stand. I do not, however, expect it. Call me a cynic.<br /><br />It&#039;s truly unfortunate that posts made in honesty and candor are being dismissed, and worse, erased. In keeping with the theme of the Yo Yo threads I offer up the idea of instating a newer and more active forum moderator. Maybe someone who plays in the American scene and has some idea of why the unrest exist, what is real discussion as opposed to trolling, and someone who can respond to the threads as opposed to locking and ignoring. Ignoring the player base is where this schism starts. We fucking like this game and we want to see it continue. Please stop calling us names, ignoring our posts and pretending we&#039;re not the reason you keep writing this software.<br /><br />I want to be clear,, I do appreciate what the developers do. I have paid my money to host and spent my time organizing competitive games and right now I&#039;m sitting here putting my ideas on these forums [b]for a very good reason[/b]. I put time and energy into making zdaemon a fun place and want it to continue to be. Use my idea, put a reasonably active forum mod on duty who can participate in the discussions instead of just snuffing them out. It will make people want to post here and want to challenge people here and it will stir up what we all want, activity.