The logs from the IRC conversations are up. Seems like there was some good stuff going on. I understand somewhat the removal of the donation system. People do actually feel entitled to know more if they donated, not EVERYONE, but some ruin it for all. Some demand to know whats going on with THEIR forum, as Lon mentioned in one of the IRC chats.
As far as post count goes, well I don't care if he removes the posts from the games section. I always found it annoying for people to boost their post count with "Count to a million" threads. And to be honest, threads like that PROVE his point, that people do care about post count and use it as a sort of status symbol.
Overall, yes it is more business like but its his to do as he wished. I don't spend much time on there at all anymore so it doesn't directly affect me. Though, it appears he is trying to listen to the community a little more. As I said, though, I don't use the site for anything anymore except to just check what the recent changes are :/
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