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OK guys...this is going to be a long post as I try to explain what has happened and my thoughts on everything. I would ask you to with hold judgement or opinions until you get through everything. So..as you may or may not know, I posted a global announcement earlier today to let everyone know that they need to comb through their private messages and get rid of anything they don't need anymore or anything that they would prefer not have the possibility of being read. The reason for this was because we have tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of private messages being kept on the system. I need to start doing some maintenance on that database to get it ready to export over to the new software. As this fired up, it processes messages in the order of last in, first out...the same way you see PMs in your inbox. I don't know if you guys have taken notice of the PMs in the Admin Control Panel, but there are two messages for each one created. One for the person that wrote it, one for the person that it was sent to. Part of the maintenance being done is an attempt to match up all of the messages and then prcess the orphans to determine if they should be kept, deleted or otherwise processed. Immediately after starting the process, numerous PMs kicked out. A couple were from ******* to Greg (nhwoods). I don't know who initiated contact with who as theere were apparently a series of messages. I am only assuming based on how it was written as I did not progress off of the messages that kicked out as exceptions as a part of the maintenance process. Long story short, what I say was ******* telling Greg how wrong "we" are for not making Invicta get him his prize watch. He then went on to tell Greg how he felt that the "we" were getting to coozy with Invicta and were doing nothing more than hyping them and kissing the a$$ of Invicta and Eyal and squashing free speech in addition to being "ignored" by me and Jim. That was all in one message. The second message dealt with his response to Greg apparently telling him (*******) that he (Greg) was considering posting on the forum that he has not gotten his prize yet and hoping that stirring up a bunch of $hit would would force us and/or Invicta to get him his prize. I'll just be blunt here. ******* needs to go. Whether we give him the opportunity to resign or we just remove him from being a moderator, I don't care. But, as far as I am concerned, he needs to go and I don't want him on the admin team. Here is my thinking... I have personally told all of the moderators over the phone and in writing that the one thing they could count on from the ownership to is to "back their play" in public or when it comes to the members. After seeing how many members of the mod and admin team at BDWF were treated, I wanted to make sure that all of them could expect that we would never call them out in public. I have told them that they could figure out the absolute worst way to handle any situation on the forum and that when it came to the membership that we would back them and deal with the issue behind the scenes where the rest of the membership cannot see. With that in mind, I expect no less from the moderators in regards to us and the site as a whole. ******* has every right in the world to think whatever he would like to in regards to