[quote=@Buddha]
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I wasn't but [i]I suppose it's true that I didn't expect all five active members of the arena board to come give me a piece of mind[/i]. Some of you made good arguments. But I stand by my argument in favor of a lack of any other ideas to re-energize the board. So I remain of the opinion that having a tournament in the near future doesn't really give us much reason to maintain the forum as a dedicated independent sub-forum. 

I'd like to (continue to) invite you to share your ideas about re-energizing the subforum so you can change my mind about how dead it is. I'd like to see arena revitalized because you guys were right in your assessment that arena RP is a vital part of roleplaying. So, please, if you do have the time, enter the debate in my thread/another thread about how you would prefer to see arena RP revitalized and how you'd ensure that it's an active community rather than a near-dead 5 playerbase community.

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Those are just the people who showed up within twelve hours of knowing you were trying to prescribe massive changes to a section you know nothing about. Your language tells me you've already formed your own opinions of the Arena, I'm not particularly interested in trying to fix the ignorance of everyone I meet. No one has that kind of time.