i opitimize almost everything that's wrong with the forum. sadly also so does carlos, which is why i don't think he should have been appointed in the first place. he will try but we all know and he knows that bias will get in the way. that's why i stepped down, i knew i didnt care enough about this place to act responsibly as an admin, i'd end up getting bored.
i think the main issue is is that members like me worked before. originally you pretty much just had g1, carlos and tdk. that was true up until about 08 when i started joining in and then also until about 09 when the aussies decided being proper members was boring. then suddenly after the whole mike chaos fiasco you have literally half the forum attempting to be 'trolls' if you would. then this clique business kicked in where basically all the older members and ones who could post literately ran the forum and the worse thing is the other members thought they could as well.
this forum is too full of houlier than thou trolls essentially and back in the day it worked because their were only a few in the masses of active members. now these originally 'trolls' and now clique members take up almost all of the forum. basically the clique won in terms of getting rid of all the stupid members we didnt like, however that also ended up being the demise because there was nothing left to do.