@kennethamy,
I hope you're doing well, K, and that's not some ironic stab. I will agree w/ you that "mess" is a strong term, even if I respect any forum all the more for welcoming public criticism of said forum. Personally, I've been treated well here. To be frank, I'm not fond of the visual aspect of the forum or it's non-specific focus. But those are just matters of personal taste of course.
Now as far as your anti-moderator attack goes, I completely recognize your right to an opinion. Of course. But allow me to say that at times you seemed to me like a hater of philosophy and those who practiced it. Now we obviously have and have always had different conceptions of philosophy. Fair enough. I mention this just to illustrate how subjective "hatred of philosophy" is. Perhaps there is a certain amount of unspoken or spoken agreement as to method between those communicating that make friendly disagreement possible. I know that there were many times in our many discussions where you failed to and/or simply refused to make a case. It's likely enough that we all start from axioms which are simply not defensible from a rhetorical point of view. Indeed, "proof" itself is arguably something of a superstition. Perhaps you will even agree, but probably not.
While having zero ill-will toward this forum as far as personal experience goes, I do look forward to joining a philosophy-specialized community again, especially as many that I came to consider friends will be there. If you chance to be there at some point, I hope we can either debate pleasantly, or ignore one another's almost opposite conception of philosophy.
I realize you were suspended once largely because of your comments toward me, or so it seems to me. I would like you to know that I never once complained to any moderators about this. It's not that I think there decision was wrong or even necessarily right for that matter. It's a complicated issue. Realistically, a certain amount of moderation with teeth may be necessary to steer any community toward an ideal. At some point we should have simply ignored one another. Sometimes disagreements are too fundamental to be worth debating. I'm not going to dredge up the old debates, of course. I do wish you well as my fellow human being and hope you are squeezing some joy out of our mutual friend philosophy.