Sorry about the radio silence. This week was midterms and I sort of tuned Doom out. I saw this post when it was first posted and I basically just dismissed it as Rust being a pot stirrer. Blair&#039;s post was pretty interesting though and I&#039;d like to respond to a few posts without responding to every point specifically as that would just take too long.<br /><br />[u]Rust&#039;s first post:[/u] You&#039;re hostile and seemingly wound up about things that have been commonplace in IDL for a long long time. If you want to help then my all means do so. I agree there are a slew of problems in IDL. Please help us come up with viable solutions.<br /><br />[u]Blair&#039;s post:[/u] I agree with your characterization of the board&#039;s attitude but I think you&#039;re way off base about the actions of the constituting members. Maps being a subjective topic I&#039;ll just say I disagree with you and while I don&#039;t remember voting on the maps for the schedule I would have done so because I think Bones did a really good job with this season&#039;s maps. The wad was a mess and Ralph being disgruntled with our decisions (or lack of) made things worse. Mass volunteered to do a wad the board voted on, and he may have overlooked some things. Ralph put us in a tough spot at the beginning of the season by refusing to compile a wad the board voted on after agreeing to do so previously. I actually think Mass deserves a bit of credit for bailing us out of that rather than heaping on a chorus of &quot;you didn&#039;t do it right&quot;. That is just my opinion though.<br /><br />[u]Dewww&#039;s post:[/u] While I realize that Rust and to some degree Blair are impugning your honor it&#039;s seriously not helpful to go on like you did. I may be the kettle but I know what black is.<br /><br />[u]Prime&#039;s post:[/u] Bones is as much (more) to blame for both the good and bad things in the past 2 seasons. Not only is he an integral part of making IDL run he&#039;s also the one who put together 3/5ths of the board. And by that logic if you believe the past 2 seasons have been worse than the previous 9 then much blame goes to Ralphis as well for putting someone in charge who, by the previous logic, was not equipped for the job at hand. Say what you want about the board but we worked pretty hard this last season. Just because the result isn&#039;t being looked upon very well doesn&#039;t mean we didn&#039;t put a lot of energy and effort into our attempts. I am continually surprised by the level of rancor that people who contribute to IDL are met with.<br /><br />[u]Chain&#039;s post:[/u] I think you make a bunch of really good points. One that I&#039;d highlight is #4. I also think you made a couple of uninformed points. I&#039;ve already talked to you about most of it.<br /><br />[u]Rust&#039;s continued post about the board being responsible for killing Jesus and the Holocaust:[/u] Your issue is that the board doesn&#039;t listen to the player base? We pushed team names in because of a poll where enough players voiced their support. We removed a map (old map24) called Libraries because it saw widespread criticism. We talked about pretty much all of our preseason decisions with not only #idl but also on the forums. There are threads outlining almost every change we made to the draft. On top of all of that, when TT was having problems early in the season, I spent both my time and my money moving it. It&#039;s astounding to me that you think we don&#039;t listen. If what you mean is that we don&#039;t always obey then you&#039;re right. And if by chance you forgot the members of the IDL administration play in IDL too (ok Miek doesn&#039;t). If you want a scapegoat I guess you can use the administration but at this point your scapegoat runs all the stats, does the scheduling and spends time and money on the league. Help us instead of pointing out the myriad of flaws and sitting idly by on TS bellyaching about the bourgeois.