I've caused a lotta rucus today, I know, I know. It was fun, but it's time I move on.. for now atleast.
So let me make my feedback official. First off, Moderators. Get Moderators. Get moderators to patrol the forums. This forum is chaotic. There is little organization here, and there are groups of individuals who are blantently rude and uncivilized to other users. And of course, since this is a self-moderated system, there is no sense of justice. You can't expect every single member to behave fairly, that just doesn't work.
Hiring moderators is simple work, you just recruit volunteers. I run an online game, and it works just fine for me. Everyone is happy and there is no flaming going on in the forums.
This is probably been posted so many times before, but because of how this site is run, it is driving away members, it's not just me, it's everyone. I'm simply going to move to killingifrit, thier forums are much better, and much more populated then yours... And they don't have the self-moderation like this forum does, they actually have REAL moderators.