It seems that Y and Mut have made up their minds, and there is no going back. I'll miss them for sure, a lot of us will. Some of you are probably glad they're gone. Regardless, the question that remains is this: How do we as a community respond? Or rather, how should you as an individual respond?

With the whole admin and mod issues aside, we as a community must take some responsibility here. The quality of the forums and the posts depends on no one else but you. Every time you post you make a decision to either contribute to a discussion or make a content-less comment. Take some time to do a search of your posts over the last few months and evaluate what kind of a contribution you have been making. Every person is a part of the community, and each one of us determines what the community will be by what we post. And as I have said before, the quality of discussion also determines the quality of people who sign up and become new members. So ultimately, each of us needs to decide, what do we want this forum to be? Do we want it to end up looking like the Naruto forum on anarchy day? Or do we want it to be a place where we can come for fun and interesting discussion? Whatever you decide, it will show in your posts.

Once you have decided this, only then can we address things like administration and forum infrastructure. In my mind, these issues pale in comparison to the first. And for all the criticism there has been on the administration front, I'd like to point out that complich8 is at the forums daily, patiently answering even the silliest support questions with very clear and comprehensive answers. He also gave name changes to many people on request and is always available when there are questions. Wilik is also usually available on irc. If you guys want them to care about the forum more, then make them care by making the forum a better place to be.