[quote=@Lugubrious]
Well, it's because I'm incompetent, clearly.  I thought I was getting at what you all wanted; things that might help set this right.  A good example of this might be that I just don't understand what you mean by people not being on the same page.  If teams aren't on the same page, I'm thinking, how can they interact with one another?

I'd say something like I'm not one for self-pity at this point, but I really, really am.  I feel like the scum of the earth.  The realization I probably am makes me feel sick.  I've just shown that I can't make competent arguments or decisions or do anything to help people.  If someone smarter than me could just take over this mess I've made right now, please please do.  I'd love to just sink back into the hedges and not have to think about this anymore.  I have to get off the computer and go to sleep.  I'm sorry for ruining everything.
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I'm imagining you with a computer doing that.

The truth is that you are managing what, almost thirty of us? The inevitable fact is that you can't no matter what you do please all of us and you shouldn't have to. We are all more or less happy here, otherwise we would have left a long time ago. This is a really fun RP, one of the beset I've ever been involved with and one of the only ones that stays steady. You are not doing anything inordinately wrong, you're fair but firm about criteria for new comers, more than generous on time for those had have vanished, accommodating to those that wish to return. You're a very good GM in my books. All you need to do is give this RP time to [i]be[/i] fun, to run all over the place and make some stupid mistakes. Let it grow up on its own and don't try to force the issue and we'll all do great. "Don't grow up too quickly, enjoy the freedom when you're young before you lose it." (Wanted to use a Peter Pan quote but couldn't find one applicable.) You're not doing anything inherently wrong. If you don't believe me just go back to the Contest Thread and read the Survey Responses. I wasn't the only one to say you're doing fine.

Because I didn't get to do it up there here it:

"All the world is made up faith, and trust, and pixie dust." - J.M. Barrie