LSPDFR Community and Whomever it may Concern,

 

I've been around this site for a hot minute. I like to think I generally know what I'm doing when it comes to skin designing, among other things that have to do with GTA modding. In my time here, I've released exactly 81 files in just over a year of membership. That's more than most members here. I'm not saying I'm better, more qualified, or more talented than anyone else here, but I will say I have worked very hard to bring this community quality work the entire time I've been here. As of November 7th, 2018, the entirety of my file library will no longer be available on LCPDFR.

 

Why I'm no longer sharing my files here:

 

Rude & disrespectful members: 

Since starting this adventure about a year ago, I've met quite a few great people. Helpful people who give constructive feedback on my work. I've also come across people who have no regard for my intense effort to make high quality work. I've had people rip my designs, screenshots and abuse the LCPDFR review system because they didn't like my response to their rude comments, reviews, etc. For example, humans are not perfect, we all miss a few errors. If one of my screenshots has a bit too much saturation, I probably missed it, there's no need to leave a one star paragraph long essay on how much that one picture sucks. Then when I reply with something you don't like, you go and one star all of my other files, which is real mature. This is why we all can't get along, and it's annoying because if we could just learn to give constructive feedback, this wouldn't be an issue.

 

Staff have treated members poorly:

In the instance I heard about, a modeler I know of was treated unreasonably poorly by a member of the LCPDFR staff. I'm not here to stir more stuff up, but come on! I'm not getting into the specifics, because that's between the member and staff, but what I will say, being on the staff of a pretty large website, you should hold yourself to a higher standard. Don't curse people out because they let you know about something of concern on the site, instead, look at it in a professional manner - and deal with it in a professional manner. This isn't all of the staff, by the way. I have had many positive encounters with site staff, and they are great people!

 

Lack of substantial new things:

Yes, I understand that 0.4 is in development, near release and all. That being said, we've had the same general call-outs, scripts and such for a pretty extended amount of time. 0.3 brought many new and exiting things to this community when it was released in July 2016. Since then, we've seen the same tactics, maneuvers, and bugs over and over again. From the players' side, this should be understandable - as we all want new things to put in our game. From the developers' side, the prolonged wait is also understandable, adding many new things to the update that look like big mechanical changes. Adding ambient crimes, additional player/ped customization, menu options, etc. While this is all very cool, I personally don't think it takes 2 years to develop this. I've seen mods like "Stop The Ped" and "Interaction +" come out and be updated in a much shorter amount of time, and those plugins are considerably similar to the previewed content of the LSPDFR 0.4 release. I also understand the developers are making this in their own time, with little to no financial support. I know I'm not the only member who feels this way about the updates, or lack thereof.

 

Stolen & misused content:

I'm a pretty generous person. I don't charge you for me to design a skin going to a public release or to help develop something to better the community. But, when I'm generous enough to make you textures or something of the sort, I expect you to ask me before modifying the file I made you, I also expect credit for my work as well. I've had multiple occasions on this site where I make something for someone else, and they have either posted it without my permission, modified it without my permission, or sold it without my permission. Yeah, yeah - the site admin doesn't condone any form of financial transactions.... All I'm saying is, it's really not that hard to ask to do something with my work. Most of the time I'll let you post it, modify it, whatever, I just want to know you're doing so. But, when you don't credit me, and ignore my requests for credit for my own work - it makes me pretty angry.  

 

Members are just ugly to each other:

I've been involved in, seen and heard of so much "drama" within this community. Why? We all literally make stuff for a $60 video game. What happens is one person gets too confident about their work, then other people get upset with that person, and arguments arise. It happens in intervals, too. It's a different set of people every time. When this happens, people just leave because they get fed up with this crap. It's like a country's revolution. In this case, it keeps happening over and over again. I'm sure i'm not the first one to point these problems out, but seriously, we all need to see that we have a common goal, and drop all of the pre-existing grudges - AND WORK TOGETHER!

 

Finishing, I'm really not going after anybody, I don't want to start any drama. I wrote this and cleared my files because I want to see some positive change here. We're all getting tired of this toxic crap, and quite frankly, I don't think I'll be the only one to leave because of this. I think we would all like to see an improvement in how we treat each other. I'll be honest, there have been a few instances where I was somewhat rude to other members, but from those instances, I learned that it's only counter-productive to act that way. This will 110% be mis-understood, but just to be safe and repeat myself for the third time - I'm not targeting any single person in this post, I'm making this post because I want people to realize we need a positive change here, and hopefully this will help make people realize that.

 

Closing: Thank you to all the people who helped me get where I am today. I'm not going offline, I'm just leaving this site. I'll still be on Discord and such. Again, thanks to the following people for their support, kind words and such, it doesn't go unnoticed.

Spoiler

 

- Thin Blue Designs team - giving feedback & resources

- Members, admin, mods of the LSPDFR Fans Discord - lovely conversations about whatever

- Not AJ - features in videos, IV help, etc.

- Walters - Collaboration on vehicle packs

- Prodigy - advice on visuals, awesome textures

- Maurice97 - Admin on your Discord & quality models

- YoNotAJDougrianHusky1637WaltersHPDRMaurice97JenningsFelicoftheSam (you know who you are lol)

 

 

If you want to join my Discord, PM me since it's against guidelines to post it here. My Discord username is T. Jennings#1056

 

Regards,

T. Jennings

Edited November 8, 20187 yr by T. Jennings
Discord information changed

Much love man! Your work was always killer! Hopefully things change around here like you mentioned. 

Sorry to see you go, man. 

 

30 minutes ago, T. Jennings said:

- YoNotAJDougrianHusky1637WaltersHPDRMaurice97JenningsFelicoftheSam (you know who you are lol)

That gave me a good laugh tho.

35 minutes ago, T. Jennings said:

- YoNotAJDougrianHusky1637WaltersHPDRMaurice97JenningsFelicoftheSam (you know who you are lol)

That chat name tho.

 

It will be a shame to see you leaving the community bro. I'll be sure to abuse you more now 😉

Sad to see you go, but I totally get it and agree. And I hope some things are done by the higher ups here to fix some of the issues mentioned here. This is a HUGE loss to this website. 

Another great modeler/texturer/whatever 😛 you get the point - ANOTHER GREAT PERSON struck down by the toxicity of this (as of late) shit community. I've seen the rude comments and I've even seen some rude authors and it's just a load of crap. Jennings, like many others, I am a fan of your work and I pray to see you back in the future. Definitely joining your discord, and if there's any further help you need beit testing, advice, whatever just send me a Discord DM. 

Sad to see someone who seems to be very well respected in the community leaving. 

I can't really speak for the moderation side of the site anymore, but when I was in the position willpv23 is in now, I always appreciated getting some concrete pointers about what is wrong with the site, who is doing these wrongdoings and what we can do to improve ourselves and the site. 

 

Regarding the toxicity, I agree to some extent. Sadly, it's always been there and probably always will be there somehow. It seems to be this game that brings out the worse in some people. I've also been in this scene for a long time, and it's been better but we also have to remember: It's been worse. A lot worse. 

 

Enjoy your time away, it's probably healthy 🙂

Another great man gone from this site. Such a big loss. Goodbye Jeff Favignano (Only some well get it) ☹️

9 hours ago, ineseri said:

Sad to see someone who seems to be very well respected in the community leaving. 

I can't really speak for the moderation side of the site anymore, but when I was in the position willpv23 is in now, I always appreciated getting some concrete pointers about what is wrong with the site, who is doing these wrongdoings and what we can do to improve ourselves and the site. 

 

Regarding the toxicity, I agree to some extent. Sadly, it's always been there and probably always will be there somehow. It seems to be this game that brings out the worse in some people. I've also been in this scene for a long time, and it's been better but we also have to remember: It's been worse. A lot worse. 

 

Enjoy your time away, it's probably healthy 🙂

I’d miss having you back in all honesty. One of my favorite kinds of staff members. Much love ineseri! 

12 hours ago, T. Jennings said:

LSPDFR Community and Whomever it may Concern,

 

I've been around this site for a hot minute. I like to think I generally know what I'm doing when it comes to skin designing, among other things that have to do with GTA modding. In my time here, I've released exactly 81 files in just over a year of membership. That's more than most members here. I'm not saying I'm better, more qualified, or more talented than anyone else here, but I will say I have worked very hard to bring this community quality work the entire time I've been here. As of November 7th, 2018, the entirety of my file library will no longer be available on LCPDFR.

 

Why I'm no longer sharing my files here:

 

Rude & disrespectful members: 

Since starting this adventure about a year ago, I've met quite a few great people. Helpful people who give constructive feedback on my work. I've also come across people who have no regard for my intense effort to make high quality work. I've had people rip my designs, screenshots and abuse the LCPDFR review system because they didn't like my response to their rude comments, reviews, etc. For example, humans are not perfect, we all miss a few errors. If one of my screenshots has a bit too much saturation, I probably missed it, there's no need to leave a one star paragraph long essay on how much that one picture sucks. Then when I reply with something you don't like, you go and one star all of my other files, which is real mature. This is why we all can't get along, and it's annoying because if we could just learn to give constructive feedback, this wouldn't be an issue.

 

Staff have treated members poorly:

In the instance I heard about, a modeler I know of was treated unreasonably poorly by a member of the LCPDFR staff. I'm not here to stir more stuff up, but come on! I'm not getting into the specifics, because that's between the member and staff, but what I will say, being on the staff of a pretty large website, you should hold yourself to a higher standard. Don't curse people out because they let you know about something of concern on the site, instead, look at it in a professional manner - and deal with it in a professional manner. This isn't all of the staff, by the way. I have had many positive encounters with site staff, and they are great people!

 

Lack of substantial new things:

Yes, I understand that 0.4 is in development, near release and all. That being said, we've had the same general call-outs, scripts and such for a pretty extended amount of time. 0.3 brought many new and exiting things to this community when it was released in July 2016. Since then, we've seen the same tactics, maneuvers, and bugs over and over again. From the players' side, this should be understandable - as we all want new things to put in our game. From the developers' side, the prolonged wait is also understandable, adding many new things to the update that look like big mechanical changes. Adding ambient crimes, additional player/ped customization, menu options, etc. While this is all very cool, I personally don't think it takes 2 years to develop this. I've seen mods like "Stop The Ped" and "Interaction +" come out and be updated in a much shorter amount of time, and those plugins are considerably similar to the previewed content of the LSPDFR 0.4 release. I also understand the developers are making this in their own time, with little to no financial support. I know I'm not the only member who feels this way about the updates, or lack thereof.

 

Stolen & misused content:

I'm a pretty generous person. I don't charge you for me to design a skin going to a public release or to help develop something to better the community. But, when I'm generous enough to make you textures or something of the sort, I expect you to ask me before modifying the file I made you, I also expect credit for my work as well. I've had multiple occasions on this site where I make something for someone else, and they have either posted it without my permission, modified it without my permission, or sold it without my permission. Yeah, yeah - the site admin doesn't condone any form of financial transactions.... All I'm saying is, it's really not that hard to ask to do something with my work. Most of the time I'll let you post it, modify it, whatever, I just want to know you're doing so. But, when you don't credit me, and ignore my requests for credit for my own work - it makes me pretty angry.  

 

Members are just ugly to each other:

I've been involved in, seen and heard of so much "drama" within this community. Why? We all literally make stuff for a $60 video game. What happens is one person gets too confident about their work, then other people get upset with that person, and arguments arise. It happens in intervals, too. It's a different set of people every time. When this happens, people just leave because they get fed up with this crap. It's like a country's revolution. In this case, it keeps happening over and over again. I'm sure i'm not the first one to point these problems out, but seriously, we all need to see that we have a common goal, and drop all of the pre-existing grudges - AND WORK TOGETHER!

 

Finishing, I'm really not going after anybody, I don't want to start any drama. I wrote this and cleared my files because I want to see some positive change here. We're all getting tired of this toxic crap, and quite frankly, I don't think I'll be the only one to leave because of this. I think we would all like to see an improvement in how we treat each other. I'll be honest, there have been a few instances where I was somewhat rude to other members, but from those instances, I learned that it's only counter-productive to act that way. This will 110% be mis-understood, but just to be safe and repeat myself for the third time - I'm not targeting any single person in this post, I'm making this post because I want people to realize we need a positive change here, and hopefully this will help make people realize that.

 

Closing: Thank you to all the people who helped me get where I am today. I'm not going offline, I'm just leaving this site. I'll still be on Discord and such. Again, thanks to the following people for their support, kind words and such, it doesn't go unnoticed.

  Reveal hidden contents

 

- Thin Blue Designs team - giving feedback & resources

- Members, admin, mods of the LSPDFR Fans Discord - lovely conversations about whatever

- Not AJ - features in videos, IV help, etc.

- Walters - Collaboration on vehicle packs

- Prodigy - advice on visuals, awesome textures

- Maurice97 - Admin on your Discord & quality models

- YoNotAJDougrianHusky1637WaltersHPDRMaurice97JenningsFelicoftheSam (you know who you are lol)

 

 

If you'd like to keep up with my development of mods, you may join my Discord: 

 

 

Regards,

T. Jennings

I don’t blame you, man. Save travels. Discord is a better way, unfortunately. Your textures are godly, bud 👍 Sad to see this die down.

Edited November 8, 20187 yr by Giordano

It's a shame to see such a talented person leave this community, hopefully I get to see your work soon! -Shrimp

8 hours ago, T. Jennings said:

 

Staff have treated members poorly:

In the instance I heard about, a modeler I know of was treated unreasonably poorly by a member of the LCPDFR staff. I'm not here to stir more stuff up, but come on! I'm not getting into the specifics, because that's between the member and staff, but what I will say, being on the staff of a pretty large website, you should hold yourself to a higher standard. Don't curse people out because they let you know about something of concern on the site, instead, look at it in a professional manner - and deal with it in a professional manner. This isn't all of the staff, by the way. I have had many positive encounters with site staff, and they are great people!

 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

- Thin Blue Designs team - giving feedback & resources

- Members, admin, mods of the LSPDFR Fans Discord - lovely conversations about whatever

- Not AJ - features in videos, IV help, etc.

- Walters - Collaboration on vehicle packs

- Prodigy - advice on visuals, awesome textures

- Maurice97 - Admin on your Discord & quality models

- YoNotAJDougrianHusky1637WaltersHPDRMaurice97JenningsFelicoftheSam (you know who you are lol)

 

 

All I'm going to say from this front is that if you yourself have not been mistreated by staff, it's probably best not to post hearsay about it happening. For all you know that member could've broken rules and been disgruntled, deciding to cry abuse - which does happen.

 

Please don't stir the pot, especially when it's a third party claiming and there's no proof to back it up.  The last thing we need are people falsely believing staff are dicks.

3 minutes ago, Giordano said:

 

All I'm going to say from this front is that if you yourself have not been mistreated by staff, it's probably best not to post hearsay about it happening. For all you know that member could've broken rules and been disgruntled, deciding to cry abuse - which does happen.

 

Please don't stir the pot, especially when it's a third party claiming and there's no proof to back it up.  The last thing we need are people falsely believing staff are dicks.

I clearly said most of the staff are good people. I'm not stirring the pot. All I'm saying is, the poor choices of staff is a credible reason for me leaving. I have the full story of what happened, I wouldn't post something like this being uninformed.

12 hours ago, T. Jennings said:

LSPDFR Community and Whomever it may Concern,

 

I've been around this site for a hot minute. I like to think I generally know what I'm doing when it comes to skin designing, among other things that have to do with GTA modding. In my time here, I've released exactly 81 files in just over a year of membership. That's more than most members here. I'm not saying I'm better, more qualified, or more talented than anyone else here, but I will say I have worked very hard to bring this community quality work the entire time I've been here. As of November 7th, 2018, the entirety of my file library will no longer be available on LCPDFR.

 

Why I'm no longer sharing my files here:

 

Rude & disrespectful members: 

Since starting this adventure about a year ago, I've met quite a few great people. Helpful people who give constructive feedback on my work. I've also come across people who have no regard for my intense effort to make high quality work. I've had people rip my designs, screenshots and abuse the LCPDFR review system because they didn't like my response to their rude comments, reviews, etc. For example, humans are not perfect, we all miss a few errors. If one of my screenshots has a bit too much saturation, I probably missed it, there's no need to leave a one star paragraph long essay on how much that one picture sucks. Then when I reply with something you don't like, you go and one star all of my other files, which is real mature. This is why we all can't get along, and it's annoying because if we could just learn to give constructive feedback, this wouldn't be an issue.

 

Staff have treated members poorly:

In the instance I heard about, a modeler I know of was treated unreasonably poorly by a member of the LCPDFR staff. I'm not here to stir more stuff up, but come on! I'm not getting into the specifics, because that's between the member and staff, but what I will say, being on the staff of a pretty large website, you should hold yourself to a higher standard. Don't curse people out because they let you know about something of concern on the site, instead, look at it in a professional manner - and deal with it in a professional manner. This isn't all of the staff, by the way. I have had many positive encounters with site staff, and they are great people!

 

Lack of substantial new things:

Yes, I understand that 0.4 is in development, near release and all. That being said, we've had the same general call-outs, scripts and such for a pretty extended amount of time. 0.3 brought many new and exiting things to this community when it was released in July 2016. Since then, we've seen the same tactics, maneuvers, and bugs over and over again. From the players' side, this should be understandable - as we all want new things to put in our game. From the developers' side, the prolonged wait is also understandable, adding many new things to the update that look like big mechanical changes. Adding ambient crimes, additional player/ped customization, menu options, etc. While this is all very cool, I personally don't think it takes 2 years to develop this. I've seen mods like "Stop The Ped" and "Interaction +" come out and be updated in a much shorter amount of time, and those plugins are considerably similar to the previewed content of the LSPDFR 0.4 release. I also understand the developers are making this in their own time, with little to no financial support. I know I'm not the only member who feels this way about the updates, or lack thereof.

 

Stolen & misused content:

I'm a pretty generous person. I don't charge you for me to design a skin going to a public release or to help develop something to better the community. But, when I'm generous enough to make you textures or something of the sort, I expect you to ask me before modifying the file I made you, I also expect credit for my work as well. I've had multiple occasions on this site where I make something for someone else, and they have either posted it without my permission, modified it without my permission, or sold it without my permission. Yeah, yeah - the site admin doesn't condone any form of financial transactions.... All I'm saying is, it's really not that hard to ask to do something with my work. Most of the time I'll let you post it, modify it, whatever, I just want to know you're doing so. But, when you don't credit me, and ignore my requests for credit for my own work - it makes me pretty angry.  

 

Members are just ugly to each other:

I've been involved in, seen and heard of so much "drama" within this community. Why? We all literally make stuff for a $60 video game. What happens is one person gets too confident about their work, then other people get upset with that person, and arguments arise. It happens in intervals, too. It's a different set of people every time. When this happens, people just leave because they get fed up with this crap. It's like a country's revolution. In this case, it keeps happening over and over again. I'm sure i'm not the first one to point these problems out, but seriously, we all need to see that we have a common goal, and drop all of the pre-existing grudges - AND WORK TOGETHER!

 

Finishing, I'm really not going after anybody, I don't want to start any drama. I wrote this and cleared my files because I want to see some positive change here. We're all getting tired of this toxic crap, and quite frankly, I don't think I'll be the only one to leave because of this. I think we would all like to see an improvement in how we treat each other. I'll be honest, there have been a few instances where I was somewhat rude to other members, but from those instances, I learned that it's only counter-productive to act that way. This will 110% be mis-understood, but just to be safe and repeat myself for the third time - I'm not targeting any single person in this post, I'm making this post because I want people to realize we need a positive change here, and hopefully this will help make people realize that.

 

Closing: Thank you to all the people who helped me get where I am today. I'm not going offline, I'm just leaving this site. I'll still be on Discord and such. Again, thanks to the following people for their support, kind words and such, it doesn't go unnoticed.

  Reveal hidden contents

 

- Thin Blue Designs team - giving feedback & resources

- Members, admin, mods of the LSPDFR Fans Discord - lovely conversations about whatever

- Not AJ - features in videos, IV help, etc.

- Walters - Collaboration on vehicle packs

- Prodigy - advice on visuals, awesome textures

- Maurice97 - Admin on your Discord & quality models

- YoNotAJDougrianHusky1637WaltersHPDRMaurice97JenningsFelicoftheSam (you know who you are lol)

 

 

If you'd like to keep up with my development of mods, you may join my Discord: 

 

 

Regards,

T. Jennings

Goodbye Sir, its a shame to see another great content creator gone due to lack of respect given to said creator. You will be missed dearly.

Sad to see a talent leave. Best to you.

 

Iv always seemed to avoid the community issues by avoiding most of the forums on many a site. Just seems to be how ppl are these days.  Hope you are happy in your new home!

Welcome to the internet i guess. I also had similar problems with toxic people, i just report them and it ends there. Happens everywhere to be honest

Now that iv had the time to properly read the whole thing. I'll add slightly to my previous.

 

The issues that have led you this decision, as you know, are certainly not unique this community. I just wanted to add that I think those problems are also rooted outside of the reasons you've listed and are part of a much larger sociocultural crisis the world in general is facing. And I think to effect that positive change we indeed have to start with the basics and each other. That said I'd recommend continuing to try and stick to the civil ideas you've spoken of as much as you can, none of us are perfect. But my hope is that by trying hard to do so and helping others to do the same, we might slowly start to effect that change on a larger scale.

 

Stay positive!

Edited November 8, 20187 yr by Ragnrok

I appreciate you taking the time to write up a lengthy post like this and I think it's healthy for people to be able to express and share their concerns.  With that being said, it looks like some of your criticism is directed towards us as it relates to staff and development.  I'd be happy to provide a response to this if that's what you're looking for.  Otherwise, I can only hope that you'll understand it simply isn't possible for us to police every single thing that happens both on our website and especially on other communities and Discord servers.  In fact, doing so would likely just make things worse as our judgement isn't going to be 100% all of the time, and it's important to keep things as open as possible.

 

I feel like the points you raise about some people being rude, disrespectful and overly dramatic are perfectly valid, but I strongly believe that this isn't something which is specific to LSPDFR, and can be seen throughout the entirety of the GTA community (especially in multiplayer communities), and indeed throughout the rest of the internet too (especially given the rise of Discord).  I understand if you feel like we should do more to counter this, perhaps through more aggressive moderation, but as I noted above I don't think this is the solution and I suppose you might also agree considering your concerns about the staff too.

 

In any event, I don't want to hijack your topic, although I thought it important to convey those two points of my own.  If this is something that you'd like to discuss further then my message box is always open, or if you'd rather keep things public I'd be happy to respond here as well.  Otherwise, it's sad to see you go and I can only join the others who've posted here in wishing you the best and hoping that you'll come back one day.

See you later.

 

As a designer, you should already know that people will reshare your content, redesign it, etc (with or without credit regardless of what you want, its unfortunate but that's how things are). You don't see Adobe quitting because someone made a similar software to theirs that looks the same, or because someone cracked it. (Photoshop for example https://www.photopea.com/). The review system works as intended as well - your image will be judged based on how you deal with upset "customers" or in this case the members of this community who use your mods aka your reviews could drop on all your products based on how you handle a situation.

I assume you reported those violations to the staff members? If so, did you provide any evidence that you made those skins/mods? Just because something looks the same it doesn't mean that it's your property. 

 

The LSPDFR dev team are pretty generous too that they don't charge us for the mod. Kind of shitty that you're talking shit about the time that it takes and you bring up charging people out of nowhere. Yes, it does take a while and I think we can all agree that we wish that it was faster but it is what it is.

 

I personally haven't witnessed any staff members treating members poorly they might be assertive though. 

 

As for members being ugly to each other... I guess welcome to the Internet? There is nothing that you can really do about that. Some people will always be rude.

 

Just my two cents though.

Lol whats going on? I see other modders leaving too. Should we fear a massive exodus from this site? Admins, calm the disquieted masses we fear for our gaming experience aaaaaaa 😫 

1 hour ago, Sam said:

I appreciate you taking the time to write up a lengthy post like this and I think it's healthy for people to be able to express and share their concerns.  With that being said, it looks like some of your criticism is directed towards us as it relates to staff and development.  I'd be happy to provide a response to this if that's what you're looking for.  Otherwise, I can only hope that you'll understand it simply isn't possible for us to police every single thing that happens both on our website and especially on other communities and Discord servers.  In fact, doing so would likely just make things worse as our judgement isn't going to be 100% all of the time, and it's important to keep things as open as possible.

 

I feel like the points you raise about people being rude, disrespectful and overly dramatic are perfectly valid, but I strongly believe that this isn't something which is specific to LSPDFR, and can be seen throughout the entirety of the GTA community (especially in multiplayer communities), and indeed throughout the rest of the internet too (especially given the rise of Discord).  I understand if you feel like we should do more to counter this, perhaps through more aggressive moderation, but as I noted above I don't think this is the solution and I suppose you might also agree considering your concerns about the staff too.

 

In any event, I don't want to hijack your topic, although I thought it important to convey those two points of my own.  If this is something that you'd like to discuss further then my message box is always open, or if you'd rather keep things public I'd be happy to respond here as well.  Otherwise, it's sad to see you go and I can only join the others who've posted here in wishing you the best and hoping that you'll come back one day.

Thanks for your response. I understand there are challenges with moderation but at this point I think it's best for me to take a break. I strongly believe things will improve with time, and when they do, I may return. I look forward to the future of the mods on this site, as they have so much potential, thank you for your hard work with it so far. Much respect for your hard work and dedication to this awesome mod.