Also Don, I know I might just be an IRC guy, but you know what? The IRC is what kept the site alive. The IRC is what was there when the site had been offline for 3 months. The IRC is what brought the site back up. The IRC is where real problems were discussed, and most importantly, the IRC was where you were not.
People never just “joined” the IRC and got instant recognition and autoop, halfop or anything for that matter. The regulars that have been there, have been there for years, and if not years, quite a long time still. Those people will have a more valuable opinion then you will ever have, and will have far more respect then I will ever have for you, or h4cky0u for that matter. Even Andy has my respect more then you two, because he was the person footing the bill, and dealing with people while h4cky0u was away with life.