*cracks knuckles*
I'm not a man of words, personally because of a very nice motto that my great-grandmother left me.
"Si del mundo quieres gozar; ver, oir y callar." (If you want to enjoy the world; look, listen, and don't speak)
I guess this is what left me along with everyone. I don't take sides because I want people to like me and have the less possible risks. I don't like to speak bad of someone "close" to me, and if I do, I try to be the less detrimental as possible, even joking. Any possible REAL grudges are inside me and talk to myself about it.
I guess you can call it some sort of L?esprit de l?escalier or Treppenwitz on me.
But in situations like these, sometimes, sadly, I have to break my motto. It's just too painful to have friends who don't get along with each other.
What I have to say, on regards of April Fools Joke, it was pretty distasteful joke to me. That I won't deny. I fell for it really hard, the turmoil started, and I was about -this- close to announce my local/other Touhou communities (non-english) about the death of MotK. However, I cannot deny as well that the people were on the wrong mood at such time. (Really, people. Your constant posts on the "Frustration Vent" here worry me a lot. I mean, come on, someone could make two topics of Happiness and Anger at the same time and guess which one rises quickly. On those days particularly, I heard people were not taking it easy and were about to go trigger-happy. I don't say that all the life should be shits and giggles, but man... take it easy). Also, I have to say that "I Hate you X" jokes are pretty touchy and difficult to do. I've seen one or two performed well, but with a community with this ammount of personnel that even haven't seen each other IRL or speaking to them to hear their voices (Yes I consider those as a major factor), it's bound to be doomed.
Thankfully, it was well... a joke. But it was a lose-lose scenario. And the fallout didn't turn out well. The panic button should have been hit and stopped early on.
Sidenote: Another joke could've been better. I have one or two ideas. Ufufu~
Regarding, TSO.
I had the nice opportunity to talk to you when you were on #meido. I remember asking help for the computer setup I was getting in and your technological expertise came in handy. I don't think we spoke a lot about anything else anymore, but it was nice to see that I was getting friendly with someone. I was a little sad, thinking that you thought #meido could be a separatist group from MotK, but that aside, I can say this:
You put effort on this. Now and then. That's enough reason to keep my opinion about you very high. I've seen admins driving things not so good or even disappearing from sight. I wish we could talk about more things and get to gnaw know each other more, just like any other person I chatted with on IRC. I may have not been observing MotK from the beginnings but I can say it stood up the test of time.
The detractors, well, there will always be, for troll, weak, stupid or real reasons, but the important thing is to keep the people who agree closer to you.
Resuming, I'd like for you to stay, however, what makes you happier is what should be prioritized.