It always baffles me the way so many people act in regards to forums. Do you go into stores and tell the clerics how to arrange the shelves, or is it only behind the guise of the internet do you feel this overwhelming need to share you expertise in forum management, and web development. I swear everybody is a UI expert and professional administrator..yet I'd be very surprised if a single one of you pissen and moaning have ever setup a Enterprise level website, let alone moderate/administrate a forum of this size.
1) This is not your forum! You are a guest, and a user! YOU HAVE NO SAY! What makes you feel you have the right to ***** and moan, and that the staff is not only required to listen to you whine, but act on it as well. Who's to say your ideas are better then the staffs. Outside of posting now and then do you have ANY experience what so over? The staffs jobs are to keep things moving along smoothly for the majority of people, keep topics on topic, and keep the conversation flowing and civil. Not to babysit a bunch of disgruntled users who have spent way to much time on SW, are bored and are now looking to vent.
2) If you don't like it here, or feel you can do better.. DO IT, but don't think it's ok to use the 36,000 user base the snowest built over the past 11 years to launch your own competitive forum. Figure out how to spread the word on your own!
Don't get me wrong, I personally have no plans on paying to use sw, I will continue to use SW in the capacity that is made available to me, but I'm not going to sit here and cry like I have some sense of entitlement that doesn't exist. You're post count MEANS NOTHING. You're join date MEANS NOTHING. You're only as useful as your last contribution to the forum! If you leave nobody will care, the conversation will go on.
Welcome to the internet.. You're just 1 in a Billion..