Been giving allot of thumbs up in this thread, despite our shit situation, you are some really cool people when it comes down to it and I'm not just talking about Aprone and Nocternous either. :-)
Yeah gotta admit, post 1 almost made me tear up a bit too... sigh. I don't want this place to go down the tubes... It's part of my childhood and I grew up with it, for all it's problems I'd feel like a part of me was missing if it was gone.
I really, really wish Aprone would consider coming back after giving him self a break, same with Nocternous, we desperately need really good people like you two if we want any chance of recovering from this tailspin.
But I get it, I'd be totally warn out and tired of this too, you've fought this battle for a long time and when it starts stressing you out enough to seriously effect your real life, that's when you need to take a step back for your own sake.
Still, give it a couple months or more and I hope you guys reconsider, we all really appreciate you both here and all the work you did on this clusterfuck of a situation. You've done the community a big service even if you may feel it's a hollow victory, and no matter what you decide, I'll always respect you for doing what you've done for us.
And I agree, people need to calm down with the archiving and claims about editing/deleting posts, while it may be bad right now, I don't think it's quite that bad... But repeating stuff like that again and again is just going to make it worse, so if you truly care about this community surviving, than please don't be part of the problem.
Also, while I admit I'm also getting more and more wary of Jade's adminship as the days go by, I also think that their is a natural breakin period to be expected, and it's even worse than usual with all this chaos going on right now, no one really has time to help him much or show him the ropes on certain things.
Plus, you have to admit, he's trying to accept and minimize his mistakes by not shutting people down who PM him about it, and making followups to posts that caused an outcry.
Nothing (actually) that bad has come of the things he's said yet, so while I wish he was being more careful and wouldn't keep saying one thing, then backing it off bit by bit, I understand what a crap situation he's in with all this anger clouding the forum's atmosphere, and he's just trying to help make things better in the end, even if you might not agree with his methods.
IMO we should just try to either shut our mouths unless we have something useful to add, or flood the forum with positivity and helpfulness, at least that's what I'm going to try to do.