Personally, I have a new respect for both Shari and Opti. You know how much bullshit they deal with from complete psychopaths on a daily basis?? I have never had a bad conversation with Shari. I wish she still had an account here actually because she is a tennis fan. Opti, I had one bad experience where I was cheated from being entered in a contest over there. They were NOT paying out their points from months prior and because of that not all members were able to enter a new contest where Mods were entering more than once(not Shari or Opti). I was in the wrong power posting in their promotion thread but fair is fair and they were cheating real posters that deposited a lot of money to their books. He told me "you would make a bad Mod." That contest made me come over here full-time and see the void of there being no real contests here and asked to start some and make them as fun as I could and fair for everyone to join in.
Again, Opti gets a bad name because he has to deal with all the bullshit and both him and Shari had to be "the bad guy" enforcers. Until you dealt with the bullshit they have to, you really don't know. You can't please everyone. His biggest knock by most would be favoritism or aligning with his beliefs. Again, you are never going to please everyone so it is what it is. Haters are going to hate regardless. I am surprised AutoDonk is allowed to still post what he does there as they banned many others for less when they went the new direction. I figured Donker would be full-time here long ago.