Hello based users of Epicmafia...It is I, Biacksmith. This site is on a dangerous path. The user base dies down every single day. The moderators are growing increasingly lazy and incompetent, ignoring reports and banning every new player. For example, It took me 9 days to get this account unbanned, even though my violations were up. Isn't that ridiculous? I even was able to see that there was over 100 reports in progress two nights ago. In all my years, I've never seen it that high. This site is essentially an oligarchy, with the same group of friends constantly swapping power. Moderators like Alyssa, Char, denial, Muki, Ozil, and Spadez0 are all examples of moderators lacking leniency and holding bias towards their friends. I would like to note however, that Songin, NCRaw, and especially January have all shown incredible leadership and have managed to evade being called biased and corrupt. I believe a large majority of the user base are comfortable with them holding power. NCRAW also might be the most intelligent user on this website, and although I don't support every verdict he makes, I do believe he cares about being just to a fault. I think we need a change in the entire moderator team, with the exception of maybe keeping 1 or 2 of the previous moderators as head moderators to make the transition easier. Moderators like Alyssa and Denial have constantly acted immature and unprofessional. Maybe we should establish a way to pay future moderators in order to incite better leadership and a higher degree of capability? This site has seen an influx in users become permanently banned. The problem with this is that the moderators are giving the website more and more enemies. There wasn't always a time where every other game had a gamethrowing account. I think the website is due for another mass unbanning, barring the obvious users who need to stay banned (abc). HOWEVER, I do believe the moderators need to stop going on witchhunts against every new user. Yes, some new players are obviously going to be banned users, but let them get up to the 8 violations. If they are simply playing in peace and not bothering anyone, who really cares if they are banned? I would suggest maybe Songin as head moderator, and Lucid, I beg you, let the users of Epicmafia elect 11-15 new moderators. This will divide the work load, and hopefully, make the site succeed better. Every few months we can have new elections for moderators, and vote out the corrupt ones. Thank you for listening and reading this, it was honestly the almost 2 week period in me waiting for my alt (this account) to be unbanned that triggered me making this post. Epicmafia no longer has to be an oligarchy and we can change it. We need to do better.