I'll try and keep this briefish.
I've been thinking quite a bit about the past since Raiden and I spoke privately before his second departure, and I realized something as I result that I feel requires addressing before I sever ties.
Months ago, this community suffered a deathblow when two of it's most respected members departed for reasons that are not mine to say. As a result, the soul and direction that we as a collaboration of peers had ensured continued to be enforced on DR vanished, and everything splintered to pieces. And as such, the community I knew and loved died with it.
But instead of realizing the damage such a thing had caused at the time, I was too busy sitting aloof a pedestal of a false ideology; that my only due issuance towards the community was that I moderated in-game, not once even considering that my critique about reports being the sole focus of the moderator team at the time was an easy parallel to it. Instead of doing anything at all to ensure that the same quality of decision-making, of directing the focus of the mod team towards enriching the community to a point where community members wouldn't need to turn to trolling to feel some sense of belonging or as a cheap form of sustaining entertainment, I was far too caught up in the confrontational high that came easily to me at the time.
And because of that, I truly failed the community, for showing absolutely no positive initiative at all. So for anyone who had or has devoted as much time into this community as I have, who has felt obligated to follow the natural progression towards the travesty it is now, words simply cannot express how sorry I am.
And now, after finally realizing that returning to that great, intellectually driven community is one-hundred percent impossible, I think this time it's best if I follow Raiden's lead.