Ditto what Cazzle said, I just love people who sign up and then start telling everybody how awful the place is and what they could be doing so much better.
You’ve been in the chatroom racket (hint: not the same as a message board. No, it really isn’t) since 2004? How nice for you. This board has been around in its present form since 1999. There are a lot of things that are done here certain ways because they have been done that way for 12 years and the members like them just fine. There are other things that are done certain ways because somewhere in those 12 years there have been prolonged battles between members and admins over their implementation. The most innocuous question about a minor board feature might trigger an outpouring of sighs and rolleyes from longtime members who remember a month’s worth of vitriolic posting over it. A new poster waltzing in and insisting on a change to that board feature ignorant of the history is likely to get either a pat on the head or a “get off my lawn, kid” depending on their original tone.