A high percentage of the people that have been here long enough to have witnessed what happened are pretty insular and are not looking to make new old friends.
Especially when their power base is threatened.

We've got a pretty good crop of users, just some rough edges to smooth off a few of them.

They will get my respect when they institute a 1000mv voting limit.
Until then, they are just greedy control freak bastards to me.

I hope you take up the poor tax, too.
I still haven't heard it mentioned in the developer meetings.