i do believe that this site is slowly getting corrupted, and that some posts are not worth being on the Site.  However, i donnot think that this site should be a competitor of Facebook anywhere in my mind.  About the profilers/moderators.  I would be more than happy to do that i am homeschooled and have lots of extra time to do that.  (i actually went thru every single post on the site in about an hour)  Anyhow i agree with MacDane, we donnot want people who will kick people out of the game with the power of..well...power!  My vote for moderators are (in order)

1. MacDane/Free Willie (cant decide both very open people, wouldnt be biased)

2. Babag

3. Flyclub

4. Me (J-Elite.1)

For over a year, TheDude, babaG and myself (aside from driving the war clans, cloners, pervs, personal info sharers, TheCult, SHARKY, curly133 and other would be Mars criminals off the servers)  have relentlessly made attempts ad nausiem to guide Mars Explorer's forum in a direction of quality. We have been mean and aggressive in some of our requests or demands and we have been ridiculously polite and ridiculously respectful in other requests.  We have PMed people about their posts, we have commented seemingly forever, we have BAMMED tons and tons and tons and tons of quality posts to drive down really bad stuff and all three of us have been met with the same disheartening results; a massively cluttered, neurotic kiddie chat room for a forum and classic noob-style obstinateness  from unbelievably self indulgent brats that believe their privilege to post here needn't contribute anything and needn't be tempered with even the slightest regard for what the site administrator has suggested as forum guidelines. Your workaround for this is; "I noe this isn't mars related but...."

  I would hope that everyone is fine with occasional silly stuff or occasional off-topic posts but people have been savagely using what was everyone's forum as THEIR personal footsie game and/or jibber-jabber blog for too long while attempting to score (as Aubrey put it) "a phycological victory" against we that ask not for a cease and desist but simply MODERATION on the part of maniacal post makers/commenters. As a bonus for our efforts, Dude, baba and I have also been confronted with outrageous and incredibly burdensome consequences (unknown to almost all of you) and unimaginable by even the likes of Edgar Allan Poe.

 Well, I might just quit it. You loons just go ahead and overrun the site like The Replicators on SG1, feeding off of every scrap as you always have, using any excuse to justify hogging as much space and attention as you can possibly consume. Never mind what Aubrey Falconer thinks or what he types up for the FAQ page. Never mind that several external sites have been created to satiate your endless, frothing-at-the-mouth desire for chicanery. Never mind that you've made what was everyone's site into YOUR site. Just do your run amok thing here, where you don't belong becuzz idz funnir dat wei wen pplz get mad iznt it? 

  While you spam-goofs are gorging yourselves on buckets of sugar and Red Bull to gear up for spilling your wonderful, vapid selves all over what used to be a keen game forum in a frenzied competition to be 100th commenter or to make the most posts in a day, or claiming your club to be the snazziest or while you're bamming release announcements for ancient game versions or making your fifth or sixth unfulfilled, unresolved goodbye post, I will be flying low and flying fast, playing laser tag, hugging the wall and teaching the people that you spam-goofs undeservedly call noobs to fly and dogfight because they ACTUALLY WANT TO PLAY THE GAME AS IT'S DESIGNED not GAME ON THE FORUM.

  When I go on the forum, I will mostly attempt to navigate around your cloying and self indulgent wastes of server memory and your grotesque, pitiful attempts at phycological victories over others.

I may, however stop in to razz you and razz you but good.

Thanks for your incredible, sustained efforts Dude, bab'z and thanks to the few others that try to raise us up.

I used to be strictly for self regulation on the forum but it has proven completely ineffective.

Sincerely, kruncher