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And exactly mine too. Good work Jim.

I do sometimes get the feeling that we are considered annoying punks who criticise things, get in arguments with each other and abuse those privileges we are granted. We are in fact an exceptionally mature, intelligent and productive community. An incredible amount of good stuff is churned out on the Dominions 3 forums. There have been numerous studies done which show that when people are trusted and given privileges, they tend mostly to behave well. When a lack of trust is implied and privileges withdrawn, they have a far greater tendency to abuse whatever privileges remain, because the feeling of mutual trust has been broken (not, you understand, that I'm implying that is in danger of happening here, but it illustrates a general principle). Of course, because of your positions as staff you will tend to hear a great deal about anything that does go wrong, for example the guy who deleted all his posts when he left the forum. You are much less likely to notice the large quantity of useful stuff that goes on, the lists of things which are constantly maintained, posts edited to provide links to later posts which solved problems and so on.