I see, that's a shame. There's no real chance of getting them back then, I guess. I'm at least glad Ranger Joe left of his own accord, I remember hearing that he'd had some financial problems at some point.
Anyway, if anyone cares about my opinion, one of the main reasons I left the original board was because Ath--sm "Exposed" (I'm not going to use his full name lest he Google himself and show up again) came along and started derariling topics. And, as with every obvious troll, people fell for it hook line and sinker and responded to him, thereby giving him more ammo and baiting him into coming back. I totally get the dedication to free speech thing and support it, but all he did was make annoying, passive aggressive insults, fail hard sounding Affably Evil, and just generally derailed topics and acted like a total ignoramus without contributing anything to speak of. I hereby propose that we sh-tcan people like Ath--sm "Exposed" in the future.