One thing that i think Spyman and others need to reminded of is that the community many years ago was inhabited by little more than 5k people(4k if you don't count Jason). The site was relatively fresh out of the Kestas coding factory and had, if i may say bluntly, some sharp edges that were off-putting to people used to a site format like vBulletin. Not to mention that the VAST majority of the threads being made were by people who wanted a better site.

Literally at least half of the threads were ideas for things that could be implemented and a good chunk of the posts inside were of people who were volunteering to do the work themselves. Now, the other half of the threads on the site were almost always religious, philosophical, or political(elections around the corner) and a very small percentage were of people with rule or order issues.

Also, points had literally JUST been introduced when i joined and the gap between players was minimal(around 200 from #1 to a new guy as myself). In my opinion this put everyone on equal footing and reduced the amount of people who felt the need to belittle those who had fewer points.

All in all, the members of the site were determined to have a better site than playdip and were willing to throw down the hours to make sure it happened. I will also not that the site contained a hell of a lot less self entitled pricks who have had everything else in their live provided for them. The amount of people who post on the forums now a-days have no idea how rough the site used to be. Once threads were knocked off the front page they were pretty much gone for good and there were some coding glitches with orders getting reset or games just flat out disappearing.

I for one must say that i have not put one minute into code for this site nor have i looked at the code(i have donated numerous times to make up for such shortcomings). I would be looking at the matix and would my mind would be melting. However, i appreciate the time and effort that others have put in and can not thank them enough for giving me a free site with a solid community that i can almost always count on to give me a run for my "money".

So...

I thank you guys sincerely,
WhiteSammy