MTG Salvation

It's a default "closed" message. I didn't write it - the bulletin board puts that message up by default. Finally, if you think it is entirely the adminstration's fault the R_E & Jeff quit, think again. You wanna know the plain truth of it, here it is: R_E & Jeff made demands of the site that required money - a LOT of money. Now, I checked my backyard yesterday, and still no money tree. You guys can say or think what you want of this site, but the god's honest truth is it runs at a loss. That's right - a loss. That means it spends more than it makes. Now, when your finances have you spending more than you're making, and things come into the budget that are just expensive, you can't necessarily do them. They demanded forum upgrades and improvements. Those take money. We did not have a competent, reliable (stress reliable) programmer who was willing to do these for free. That's more money. I will not go into every single detail, but needless to say, if the money isn't there, it isn't there. I know this and understand it. You guys wanna know my salary from Raa? I'll tell you - I don't have a problem with that. Ready? $0. Nothing. Nada. Nil. Not a damn red cent. Why? I knew the site wasn't making money and I wanted to try to help. Elf & Jeff though, wanted compensation. So we compensated them. More money gone. Funny enough, it seemed the more money we gave them, the less work they did and the more they griped about what went wrong. if you guys could only see some of the threads sitting in the "admin only" section of the forums. They liked to blackmail us. Do this or else. Finally, we had no choice. They threatened resignation once more, and we finally told them if they wanted to leave to just do it. From an admistrative standpoint, we can not stand back and allow some of the workers into bullying us. We know there are a LOT of very competent people out there who would kill to be in their position. Now we'll find out who they are. Their positions will be filled, but we're going to find people who understand that situation the site is in, and is willing to work within that current situation rather than be a perpetual thorn in the side. Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with suggestions and people talking about things that might cost money, but I need someone to understand when we tell them we can't do it right now. We do listen - we're just not always able to act. I hope this clarifies things a bit more. I'm sure I will continue to get flamers on this and I'm sure there will be a plethora of people who simply do not belive me. I can only tell you the truth - what you make of it is up to you.