Have you heard yourselves, people? 'If I can't have the fucking Hate Pit, then I don't want to have UM?' Right, fine then.
So all the work Mark does, all the money he spent at the outset originally bringing this site to us, all the time and effort I and the rest of the writers spend WITHOUT PAY to bring you the latest album reviews, interviews, metal news and so forth, all the people you've met through the forums and become friends with, all the compiling of gig dates for YOUR convenience, all of the energy Mark in particular and the rest of the staff have put into making Ultimate Metal a friendly, metal-centric community where you can have intelligent discussions about your favourite and not-so-favourite bands...
All that effort has been wasted?
Are you telling us that all the time that has been spent lovingly crafting this site into the best metal community and webzine on the internet should have instead been devoted to creating a forum where people could mindlessly insult each other?
Have I wasted my time writing over a hundred album reviews for this site when I should have been deliberately typing the word 'fuck' into every post I entered?
Should my time interviewing Darkmoon, Dust To Dust, and soon Virgin Steele, Tiamat and Seven Witches have instead been spent on wording racist slurs?
Have I been following up bands in the local scene in search of the next big things, intending to bring you the news first, only to discover that many of you actually don't care about the music at all - you just want to spend your time insulting each other?
Thank you to all the people who have posted messages insulting or berating UM for taking away the Hate Pit. You've reaffirmed my long-held view that in general, people are ungrateful, short-sighted ingrates who throw their toys out of the pram at any given oppurtunity.
If it means so fucking much to you, I'LL set up a Hate Pit for you on the EzBoard at my website. And since none of you appreciate the work that Mark and the rest of do here, I'd expect no-one who posted there to log on to UM again - after all, you don't want UM without the Hate Pit, do you?