I vote that people with very bad tendencies to abuse the free areas start by showing that they can act better. Want better moderation, be more moderate.

Otherwise, the moderation team will continue to waste time on you when other things are more important. Do less stuff that gets negative attention in the free area of FK, then it frees up the moderation team from having to deal with you and police each thread you're in less and go help people instead.

Simply put, don't stir up trouble; it's unwanted.

Want FK to change its stripes, it starts with all involved; from members up to administration. Do your part instead of holding onto what you've deemed as an ability, which others call abuse.

If you feel compelled to answer, then it must be true. It's that simple. I have no time to waste on people, most have entered my very short list of ignored - which is pretty damn permanent placement. I only used to get complaints by a few people about a few people. Why? Because they were consistent in their actions - which is downright tiring.

So I'll repeat it. Being a member doesn't mean you're free to abuse the free areas. It means that you've become a problem. And unfortunately, there's more problems here than solutions.

Want to continue point fingers, one finger forward has three more pointing back at yourself.

Be part of a solution or narrow your comments to how you can improve the site because as it stands, you've probably been a problem.

DP, to explain... Indivision came to me directly, asked what were the rules around name changes. I said the likelihood of a name change was closer to zero, so it was a new user. I banned the old user, he signed up as FlashLackey. If anything, there was no thread, just a process that I did on my own... as I had done with one other user that requested a name change and we had the long-standing rule... no name changes.

As far as discussing that user as a problem, well... your memory is not faulty. Guess in a very roundabout way, that whole "circle of friends"/clique thing seems to include, not exclude, the person that brought it up. How ironic.