Well, this sucks.
I've thought about giving up on this place myself a few times in the past, but there's always been a group of quality posters over the years that stuck around. Losing two of them in one day is a huge blow. I'm kind of surprised that this is what caused Bill to break, since we've seen worse, but I can't really blame him.
Over the past several months it seems like we've been arguing over the exact same thing in every single thread. It's like Ian has ultimate control over the conversation. No matter what you're talking about, he'll turn it into his same old rant. It's not like he's adding anything that he hasn't said a hundred times before, either. I suppose you can just try to ignore what he says most of the time (believe me, I try), but the fact that that seems to be the solution being suggested in this thread just reinforces the position of many of us that he really doesn't add anything worth discussing here.
The staff doesn't seem to be as friendly as they used to be. Not everyone, of course, but this started to become a problem with Svevan, and others are following his lead.
I doubt I'll be leaving here any time soon, but I can't say I've seen any positive changes on these forums for quite some time.