First of all, as I explained to you, you were not the only one I let know that your avatar or nameplate had to go. I wasn't singling you out over it and I didn't remove it to spite you.

Yeah, it's true that that image and the nameplate you have on currently were part of a very strange and provocative advertisement that ran a few times during the transitional period where I was experimenting with different ad services, since we got kicked from Adsense at the time. That ad in general has never been safe for work; as I said, and the entire reason you guys even started to turn it into a meme, was because it was so provocative and out of place in the group of ads that usually ran.

I'm not perfect, and it was sort of in a blind spot for me since I am familiar with the image that it didn't even register for me that it might not be a good idea for an avatar, but as was discussed in Nuka's nameplate thread, these custom nameplates and avatars need to be held to a higher standard than posted images.

Why?

Believe it or not, I don't personally care about it. Comms used to spam me with ISIS beheading pictures and I didn't really give a shit. It's not about me, it's about the image of the site and what its limits should be. Guests browse this site and some of them happen to be in public places (or hell, more importantly current members browse the site in public places) and these things show up in every post and cannot be spoilered.

There's also the host to consider. Bluehost doesn't allow graphic content to be shown on sites hosted by them; and while so far this stuff doesn't qualify, I don't want to set a precedent that you can just throw whatever the hell you want in your avatar and have it be okay because "muh freedom."

Which brings me to another reason: I own the site. Maybe you think I'm a shit moderator and maybe you don't care, but I do make the rules. I'm really very sorry you feel slighted by this and are quitting, but these very forgiving and lenient avatar and nameplate restrictions are going to happen.

I don't know if I answered all your points, so I'll post this and check the OP again and answer any questions you have here (or you can PM me).

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On community management: Yeah, I'm currently the only one running things behind the scenes and that combined with real life has made my role there very thin. Isara is MIA, so it is true that the community management has been lagging behind. That's something that could be looked at, since we really do need someone that can be dedicated to it.