The forum is not a country. The staff is NOT a governement. We are just X-Japans fans who try to run a forum where we can all enjoy talking. Nobody owes noone anything. We are not serving you. If I am, I'm asking to be paid or to be set back as a regular user (joke, please don't take that seriously). We should just be talking about the band we like together.
Not serving us? Well, maybe we finally found out where the problem is.
I mean - no one wants you to polish our shoes or bow to "normal users", that's nonsense. But where do you think the difference between the founders of forums and "the others" is?
People like Hypno were brave and devoted enough to create something they have to take a regular care of and we all know that this job is pretty ungrateful. Running anything you are not paid for is always a form of... a sacrifice.
But this is also the difference - that you overcome your laziness because you want to.
Being a member of a staff should be taken as a deal, a privilege and the proof that people trust you. And yeah, it is a service.
Now, everybody, please, take your tomatoes and prepare it for throwing.