Hello,
Well, old friends; I'm not able to tell if it was mutual then or if it is now, Kitabatake, for one, at least got lots of his attention back then.
I think Aero only trusted Skasian in this matter; Every fight needs participiants, audience and the 3rd persons. Participiants are / were, for sure, me, Black and Skasian. "Audience" was pretty much the rest of TCO, except Chimto, who was willing to hop in because he had the guts, making him a 3rd person.
Now, Skasian has two helpful & user-friendly guides, which are nice, there's no question about it. The only issue was moderatorism. He couldn't move our posts, we couldn't control ourselves. Done. But wait, there's more.
Weekends are pretty double-edged; On one side, you would think that because people get out-of-work, they'd come here (same on other forums), but that's not the case always. It's up to folks' interest that can vary quite much in a certain timeline. So, to make the reason for the "dead site" is our fight, we'd to wait and look at it from a longer timeline.
Aero isn't greedy, right, but if I'm any correct, he used to be more harsh when it came to judging stuff, especially in competitions; Now I feel like it's "please everybody", which in the long run can cause a disastrous disarray.
I don't know about closing the thread - Rather send it to Hell.