I haven't posted in a while. I didn't read this whole thread, only the original post. I don't know if this is another typical IWF staff work or not. Here's what I know:
I enjoyed posting at IWF for a long time. It has a lot of solid posters, and even more enthusiastic posters. I played up a gimmick for teh lulz, but when push came to shove, I think people saw me as a guy who likes to discuss wrestling with other people that enjoy the product. I saw this site being run so incredibly poorly, and so I thought I'd give my input from the position of a concerned poster, rather than a staff member. Many people rallied behind what I was saying, because we all felt the same thing; a few people were playing one big game, whereas the majority of people just wanted to have a good time posting.
When it was clear that nothing I said was being taken into account, I stepped up and pushed to have my voice be heard from within the staff; I thought it would be better that way. I was a Super Mod and Admin on the last wrestling site I was on, and I understand how a successful site is run. I hoped to contribute the same here. I quickly found out that, like Beer said, nobody (as far as I could tell, though I don't want to generalize completely) in power actually wants to better the site. It's all for fun and quick laughs. That's absolutely fine if that's what you want. A legitimate discussion community is not intrinsically better than a lax site with no real substance; they're simply different. I wanted the former, and I came to find that IWF would always be the latter. It's just shit like making Constantine a Super Mod for a reaction, the staff making gimmick accounts to start shit, and of course the faked drama between staff members. That's fine if that's what you're looking for in a forum; it's not what I'm looking for in a forum.
I guess this is me stepping down from my mod spot? As long as IWF continues to not be serious in attempts to become a legitimate wrestling discussion site, then this certainly is. I don't mean to make the internet seem like srs business, but it's stupid to pretend like nobody here wants anything out of the site; we do continue to log in. All's I'm saying is that Beer is right in his original post, and yeah.