The problems associated with Trolls and Banned Members are thus: We ban them, they create one or several clone accounts and continue their practices. We could ban them by IP address but, IP addresses are not unique and this would ban hundreds of potential users, and even if they were unique, a cursory search of Google would tell you how to change your IP address.

If it were site speed we wanted to address, instead of kicking an older server to the street, it could be kept, and used for forum archives. When exhaustive searches are performed by users; it would bog down the old server where all forum posts older than one week are kept.

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As for the issue of users being treated as though they were a bastard step child on Fathers Day, when it comes to "what and how" Renderosity works, Mods and Coords are treated no differently than users. We are simply larger mushrooms on the same farm.

Really though it's to be expected; what is happening to Renderosity is called the Peter Principle.

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The Peter Principle
a.k.a. Screw Up & Move UpThe Peter Principle works thusly:

Peter is hired at a large corporation where many workers hide and collect a fair salary, except Peter is a motivated individual, so he performs his duties exceptionally well, and gains several promotions until he begins to fail at his tasks. Blundering ineptitude finally prevails and Peter is no longer promoted, doomed to finish his career in silent disdain.

The short version is that Companies, like people, are promoted to their highest level of ineptitude, their performance levels off, they become complacent and finally fail miserably at tasks and services they once excelled at and were well known for.

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Speaking of more than simply the disabled search functions, progress means that successful capabilities are enhanced, not diminished. There were many new forum problems that could have been avoided if Mods and Coords would have been able to test the new Forums while programmers were moving the Market Place to the new server some six months ago. This was suggested, by at least one Mod and Coord, but they were ignored in the condecending manner of S.O.P..

Many of the features which made Renderosity THE PREMIER ARTIST WEBSITE were abandoned. Solutions such as "Here copy and paste this code into your member options," is a poor substitute for buttons which showed you what your background colors, font colors and sizes would look like. We are artists, not programmers.

This whole issue could be summed up with codes REAL Engineers use (real refers to something you can put your hands on, verses bean counters with a fancy title):

K.I.S.S. and The Five P'sK.I.S.S. = Keep It Simple Stupid!

The Five P's = Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

Yank My Doodle, It's a Dandy!