to be fair to laf, they didn't have a decline due to sol -- they lost all their best most active leaders to either game dev or RL the set that SoL decided to blindside them. All the while sol's leaders just used their staff access to make sol better without contributing to the staff at all, explicitly stating so on a few occasions and telling the staffers one thing and their members another.

that's right, the thing sol'ers flamed me about was actually what sol's leaders were doing the whole time :p
ironic!
feel free to call me out on it, i've been waiting for an opportunity to post this for a while now that i'm no longer attached to laf, as it's always irked me that sol trashed me so much as an admin when their own folks who were mods/staff were actually doing worse things than they accused me of.
i have logs as well at home (in italy right now :p) which prove these points.