It's a cumulative thing. One argument between 2 people may only affect them directly, but it affects us also, and when you add up all the little arguments, you get sick of it and it seems like some people don't care and/or think it doesn't matter.
It would be a different story if we made money off the site, but we don't take any money at all. There is currently over $1000 in the account that I was hoping to do t-shirts with and sell them to make more money for hosting, but I guess it will just go to hosting directly and cover 6 more months.
It's weird, I had a blast doing the April Fool's avatar joke, and 4 days later here I am.