I suppose I should put my 2 cents in here. Time for a brief HIStory from my perspective.

In 2005, I got married.

By the end of 2006, Emi and I were having major problems. THings weren't getting properly resolved and we didn't really try to work things out. Go to counseling? Emi didn't have the energy to do that when things were that bad.

March 2007, I started working at Daiso. My 1st job since Trader Joes which I left in 2004? I was a stay home daddy for that long time. WHEN I entered Daiso, Emi got worried that I'd take interest in "all the young mall girls there". And sure, I told Frank and Shane some things, but things were falling apart due to OTHER reasons. A lot of it had to do with me not bucking up and taking a stand.

What I learned is that, I'd rather find a woman I can GROW with rather than one where I enter into "her" already set life.

When I moved out (I was homeless for a week), I didn't have a computer. I'd run to the library or Daiso to take care of VERY LITTLE JD business. I asked Fel if GS could become a moderator to take care of things. ie; Target Range, Weekend Warriors, getting rid of spam and dealing with mooks.

And almost at the beginning, I started hearing about problems with GS. I didn't know what was going on. I was getting PMs and IMs about things. Yet, I wasn't too worried about it.

It's been recently that people have been coming out of the woodwork. What you guys saw on the JD in terms of ranting was NOTHING compared to what was happening in the IMs to me and the PMs to me and Fel. People felt she wasn't level-headed (as Frank said) and quite arbitruary in a lot of matters. ie; too lenient (sp) in some cases, too hard in other. Yet, I still took a backseat, even when I came back.

MY ROLE in all this is that; I could listen. I can understand but I didn't feel it was my place to take away her powers or ban her or anything of the like. I told each and every person who had a problem with GS to take it up with Mr. Fel. He's the boss and he could make the best decision based on the info given to him. Some of the regulars have all but gone and disappeared (Phu & Jay come to mind).

JoeDios, to most of the guys (and you probably know this too since you been around awhile), was a self-policed site. We just needed someone with the power to ban a few trolls (KnowItAllJoe) and get rid of spam. I suppose JD had it's growing pains and people won't see eye-to-eye on things, but that's ok. As long as we can keep things polite (unlike the Metallica forums), everything should be ok.

As well, Mr. Fel wants this site to look a certain way. He doesn't believe we need a ton of forums because this is a specific crowd here. Sure, we can get OT in the regular forum, but there was no need for a movie forum, toy forum, comic forum, etc. He told me we could visit the JBL, YoJoe, JoeSightings, Hisstank, etc if we needed a bigger community atmosphere. Personally, I appreciate it when guys like you and Big L throw down the "What's new in the Joe line" cuz I'm not looking at closesly as I did.

RDS, thank you for your feelings on the matter of GS. Nothing wrong with getting 'em out.