I see the Shadow bit is coming to a head here. Ironic how much disdain is flowing in a thread dedicated to things that you love.
Well let's take a look at what I know about Shadow in the short time I've been here. He's a fairly new member, young, and a bit hard to understand personally. Most people here express a lot of ill feelings towards him, even when he's doing nothing. I've seen a lot of discussion on here in the last couple of weeks prod and instigate him. But I'm not just going to be in his defense, he does a lot of instigating as well, but being new here I can't discern from teasing banter and actual serious insults.
If there's anything I can be sure about, it's that his posts are quick and many times one sentence or less. He treats these forums as if they were an instant messenger interface or a chat room. That's my only real gripe with him.
Shadow, you need to put more thought into what you post. Express your thoughts after you let them stew a bit in your mind so you can clearly annotate your feelings instead of just replying with the first statement in your head. This isn't a chat room, it isn't 4Chan's random forum, it isn't GameFAQs forums, and it isn't a cell phone IM conversation. You have a lot of room to grow man. If your profile is accurate and you're really 17 then trust me, you have a lot of experiences ahead of you in the next few years that will shape your life greatly. I did the most amount of personal growing between 18 and now. Life throws you a lot of fastballs that force you to mature and grow. Jobs, taxes, post highschool education, and so on. You have a lot of maturing to do, and if you're up to it, you'll understand what I mean 5 years down the line. Consider this community online one step in that growth, and try to mature in your interactions here some.
To everyone else, don't focus so much on him. He's one voice among many here. If you don't like what he's saying, that's fine, but you don't have to let his shortcomings get to you.
I hate the idea of voting someone off of a forum. Votes shouldn't be a part of it. An online forum isn't a social economy, nor is it a democracy. There's a rule of thumb created by those in charge and those paying for the webspace that encompasses it, and their decision on how to run the place.
If it matters, my vote is to let him stay. But my advice to Shadow is to take a break. If you're handling things in the RP forums here, stick with that, but on the other forums where people are complaining, stay away from them for a few weeks. Your outlook on something changes when you separate yourself from it for a while. Maybe that's what you need.
Anyways, enough rambling about that crap... Back to the subject that should be here.
I love ale. It's so much better than beer.