I don't think the site has gone downhill, it's more a case of people moving on and no longer being interested in what the site was about. It's similar to one of the Linux magazines which I've been a reader of for 7+ years - I feel it's gone downhill recently with simple articles about how to install Ubuntu, running Apache, PHP and MySQL etc., but actually it's more that I've already learnt most of that stuff, and so the magazine feels like it's no longer of any use to me.

I think the site was more of a community before Jupiter Media took over - probably because the rules were a bit more relaxed, nobody bothered too much about staying on topic and there were few, if any, advertisements (I hate Flash adverts, doubly so when they play sounds automatically upon the page loading). On the other hand, as someone who checks in occasionally from time to time, I don't think the site is any worse off now - the only reasons I don't visit very often are because a lot of the people I used to talk to have left the site, and there's more of a focus on security which I'm not an expert on.

As for shooting every other moderator, so long as you leave Gore to wind everyone up and Negative to correct my many mistakes - sure, go ahead.