Ya know I enjoy this board just as much as the next guy and appreciate the many valuable relationships I've made on here, both business and personal.

But I'm of the belief that a board's content and value comes from its members and not its administration, and the administration need respect the fact that their very product and service upon which their livelihood depends requires showing some respect to the members.

I think Lee loses site of that often.

And Lee... I think your perceptions are very warped if you think that people come here to stir up trouble in order to generate activity on their own boards and you have no part in that. You think people are coming here to pull your members away? I think you need to consider the possibilty that it's your own actions driving people away. These conspiracy theories about people trying to take you and GWW down are enabling you to completely ignore your own part in whatever ills might befall this site.

The drama you suggest they started up? Their posts would have gone entirely unnoticed had you not made a thread calling Holly a back-stabbing bitch and childishly attempting to scold both her and her coworkers.

The drama that came about when Be*dfellow and C*ybersocket were originally banned back in the day... do you not see your own hand in any of that? Do you really think you're such the victim here, fending off assaults from sinister people bent on your destruction? Or could it just be that on certain occasions you've abandoned the kind of objectivity conducive to owning a successful webmaster community and instead chosen to be childish and overreactive?

And there was no conspiracy to get the GayWebmasterBash parties cancelled or shot down. And those events didn't take place in Phoenix at the very least in part due to their organizers inability to reconcile their schedules with those of the forum organizers. Just as Lee's suggested he's going to do again in Florida with offsite and unsanctioned events not affiliated with Internext and snubbing the show that's bringing webmasters to Florida in the first place.

I work closely with Cy*bersocket and Be*dfellow. I've actively posted on the*gayboard.com and gay*webmasterchat.com and have no ill will towards U*GAS. And I've also advertised here on GWW, eagerly attended the gay webmaster bash Vegas events, even made it a point to quote and give credit to Lee in one of the first webmaster articles I ever wrote for C*ybersocket magazine and can't even count all the webmasters I've come across with whom I've shared the existence of this board and encouraged to come sign up and share themselves with this community. And I've had a blast with GA and Lee and CA in Floridas and Phxs and Vegases past.

And I'm not here to be petty or keep controversy from dying or try and provoke or insult, but what I've not seen you do at all, Lee, is accept responsibility for your own actions, offer any apologies or even explanations, or acknowledge how some of your actions have not only been undesireable and unhealthy for the board and its members, but how you might actually have a hand in whatever consequences this board might suffer.

I come here to be a participant on GWW. Not at the mercy of it.