Okay a few things I guess.<br /><br />1.) There is significant crosswind going on between some of the things happening on this forum, and some of the things happening here: http://forums.intldoomleague.org/index.php?topic=246<br />I encourage all of you to read through both threads if you&#039;re trying to follow any of this. You should do this not only because it&#039;s interesting but also because some people who can&#039;t post here post there! It actually might behoove some of the staff to check that out and see what people are mentioning, as there are reputable people commenting there under with some degree of anonymity. I&#039;m a pretty reasonable mod and if anyone comes in just to troll I am the first to edit their post with the message &quot;wow i&#039;m such a fag and need to rethink my approach&quot;. Ask Stallion. There is more cursing there, fair warning.<br /><br />2.) The idea of having a new moderator for ZDIRC and ZDForums is a great one. I have talked to raider maybe once in my 3 or 4 years of zdaemon and it was basically him calling me a liar and telling me to go away. I don&#039;t have anything against him really except that when I wanted to discuss, granted very touchy issues, there was no conversation, just a dead end. That sucked.<br /><br />And boy do I agree that it shouldn&#039;t fall totally on Kilgore to code everything, respond to everything and moderate everything. When I can I bother Domains instead of Kilgore, maybe to avoid taxing him but MOSTLY because I feel like he&#039;s difficult to reason with. That might be because he&#039;s overworked! But when interacting with people who want to make ZDaemon better, being difficult isn&#039;t an ideal quality. No offense intended. <br /><br />3.) Kist that was as nice as I&#039;ve ever heard you. Nice post! I feel like a lot of the things you said should be heeded for future interactions, as I can still smell the bridges burning from that past few. I will add though that it frustrates me that moderators aren&#039;t nominated by the community, which they should be! Thad is a great choice, but he should be one of a few. That way there is a community interest at the table in, or maybe at least in the ears of the developer..(s). I can remember being pretty much disgusted when Kilgore wrote that he had no want or intention of supporting IDL. Someone needs to be able to talk to the developers and tell them that their positions is wrong, or that they really need to reconsider. In this instance, that competitive leagues on ZDaemon, run by the administration or not, are a very very good thing. ZDDL is awesome, IDL is awesome, ECL was awesome, Vendetta was a ton of fun...for me anyway. None of those things were supported or sponsored by ZDaemon in any meaningful way, if only because there isn&#039;t any active administrator to sponsor...anything.<br /><br />-The people currently running Tournaments are IDL players.<br />-ZDS has become a ghost town which is unfortunate.<br />-All clan related anything is dead and has been for years.<br /><br />Integrate please. Get and active mod to start leagues and team tourneys There are (and were) people wanting, willing and asking to do good things for this community. Let them and put down your nay-saying. If something bad happens like...someone is less trustworthy than they appeared, move on. It&#039;s just a game and nothing really harmful comes from letting new people in. So what if some guy who writes news pages decides one day to bash the admins. Ban him for gayness and move on.<br /><br />All that being said, I&#039;m kind of jaded by a lot of this. I think that the North America scene is pretty much all around either in IDL or Mexican/Peruvian/Argentinian. Nothing against that but I just don&#039;t enjoy all the binds and dumbness.<br /><br />I guess I don&#039;t have a point I just wanted to post and say how nice Jkist came off. Good post kisto!