But hey, at least they bring you guys back so we can get some negativity, right?

Negativity is best pony.

Yeh; negativity causes conflict, and what would we be without that? Inactive.

Just remember to drop by once in a while and talk to your old friends.

Why would someone have to take time out of their schedule to do something they don't care about and isn't essential?

We can show people Armor Games is the best darn website out there!

We? How? Dilly of a pickle?

I want Carlie, not Cormyn preferably and hypothetically. Don't want to go through such a strict Forum phase.

Justin isn't the head of AG... Dan and John are the head guys as far as I know. (Just to keep the facts straight.)

Dan is the head of AG, John is the head of game development and Justin is the head of the community.

Why? There's so little activity in the community only two or three mods are needed. One could go it alone if necessary. The community is tiny. More mods isn't going to make life better.

If you haven't noticed, if you get two or three mods posting in the same thread, that thread is going to blow up with activity. Newish users especially want to get in on the "action" of posting in the presence of mods. They probably see it as some sort of mortals-on-Mount-Olympus thing.

This is what I've seen from experience.

Would I want AG to be like 2009 again? Sure. Those were the times I was still learning who did what, and the ways of the site. There was plenty of crap, but there was plenty of fun, too.

Would you rather keep the site the way it is now, or have it be more like it was back in 2009? And for the love of all things sacred, do not answer with a "you can't make the site the way it was back in 2009" because that's not what I'm asking.

If you want to give up on the community, then give up. But complaining about other people voicing their opinions on how to better it again doesn't help anybody.

Cenere's is the only opinion I'd suggest anyone even come remotely close to valuing in this matter.

Arrogance isn't going to help anyone or anything either.

Like him or not, when cormyn was in power, things got done. Not only did things progress like never before, but the community was made well aware of every update and any member could approach him for any problem and he'd get around to it just like that. He involved himself with the community and let everyone know he was there.

You can choose to remember him as some fascist, power-hungry dictator. I choose to remember him as the most dedicated community leader we've ever had and perhaps will ever have.

Why would someone have to take time out of their schedule to do something they don't care about and isn't essential?

Would you like it if someone you talked to almost every day suddenly moved hundreds of miles away and never attempted to contact you again and you had no way of contacting them?

Yeh; negativity causes conflict, and what would we be without that? Inactive.

On the internet, conflicts last as long as both parties are willing to argue, even if neither of them know what they're talking about. Hence the WEPR. I've never once seen someone in a forum say "Oh, you're right and I'm wrong. Silly me."

I want Carlie, not Cormyn preferably and hypothetically.

Carlie was as friendly and approachable as they come, but she also had a tendency to disappear for indefinite and sometimes inordinate periods of time without letting the community know. She was dedicated, but not on the same level cormyn was.

He involved himself with the community and let everyone know he was there.

How could someone miss that ban message when they try to log in?

Little infraction? b&. Disagree with cormyn? b&.

Stalin got **** done. He also killed twenty million people.

because that's not what I'm asking.

You were asking something? I wasn't aware.

If you want to give up on the community, then give up. But complaining about other people voicing their opinions on how to better it again doesn't help anybody.

I'm complaining about the repetitive nature of the thread. I've seen it all before, and I'll probably see it again. The intention is good, but it's pointless and irrelevant. Stating that we're lacking in activity is like saying that people die when they're killed. It's obvious. While I would support more activity, the main divisive point of the thread is the issue of mein fuhrer cormyn.

Like him or not, when cormyn was in power, things got done.

No, they didn't. What did he achieve? What "progress" did he make? The "problems" he worked to solve didn't exist until he decided they needed to be solved. He did achieve some good things and ban some bad users, but he was overzealous to say the least.

And Orion Alt and I aren't being negative. Well, we are, but not pointlessly so. We all agree that AG sucks and should be better. We apparently all don't agree on how it should be better.

However people might feel about Ian/Cormyn and what he did as an admin and as a face for the staff, he was probably the best thing that could have happened since Carlie got busy and left. Simply because he bothered to listen to mods, users and he actually communicated with the community.
His - reign was stricter, but also better controlled, at least from a mod point of view.
I personally liked him a lot, since he actually did bother with us, he bothered with small talks and put in as many thoughts on topics as he could, so we could find a proper solution. Not to mention he was there, just a post away, and not twenty emails and an angry thread away like the rest of the staff seems to be.

So, even if he was trigger happy to some, that he might not have an agreeable solution or he might not be as smooth with the community as an of the mods or something... He still actually gave off the feeling that someone cared.
The current staff... The current staff will write four word posts, reply to one single thread and apparently ignore anything else and, I assume, does not value their moderators, present, former or future.
Or they just hate me specifically, which would not be news, but seems like an overly ambitious thought.

Well seeing as I am a new user and (Probably) younger in age, maturity and time on AG. I can safely say that I can safely qualify myself as someone who is an outsider of this community.

However, I can give a neutral look on this website. Specifically on community leaders. Please correct me if my opinions are wrong. I am solely looking on past posts.

In terms of AG3 it looked like Cormyn did a good job of informing, which to his credit, was his only job he was supposed to do. However after some lurking I see that Cormyn did think of himself as a community manager, which he was not. Now, as a community manager cormyn shouldn't of stepped up.However you "Veterans" seem to think organizing a community is easy and that finding someone that wants to dedicate hours of time into a forum is as simple as an advertisement. Cormyn might not have been a good "Community manager" but he gave it a good shot, looking at his decisions, some weren't that bad and he did do some things that needed to be done.

In conclusion, AG just needs a face of the community that keeps everyone happy and talks to the mods a bit. All succesful forums have this person. At the start they can do without a one but soon the size is hard to control. AG just needs someone who is dedicated.

Wait a second...

We already knew that, and this person isn't coming soon.

Cornyn did a better job with him than without anyone. Look at you vets now. Whining about inactivity and arguing over what AG needs. If I hadn't been lurking here for a while I would guess that this forum is just filled with complaining veterans.

Note: I am not a veteran and I am not someone who has been on here for a long period of time. I have lurked a year and the rest is just judged from past posts. Maybe I shouldn't have posted but challenging arrogance is hard to resist.