*Pats AM on the back*
I vaguely remember a thread where you claimed yourself to be one of these so called "core members". If you left would the board die as you claim? I don't believe it would, someone else would step up to the plate. Same for anyone.
The high school mentality i talk about is the individual "cliques" brown-nosing each other and if anyone dares to cristicise one member of a clique, the rest jump in with stupid arguments and childish insults (see Mark Deez, LilShortie, Rahim etc). Easy did it, but it was funny, not aggressive. That's why the rep system was taken away and it's why members just get fucked off and leave. Think about it this way, if you (not specifically you) didn't try and drive out members that you've adjudged not "cool" enough (high school mentality again) then forums such as Sports wouldn't be dead on their arse with little activity.
Core members such as Big E, Chronic, Skillz, Ruk, even the likes of AON to some extent have left and the "replacements" (yourself, Kami/Diaz, etc) are not of the same calibre, as much as you'd like and claim to be. You post in quantity ("I took it upon myself to post every single interesting piece of sports news") but not the quality. Diaz and Kami for example, don't post anything that isn't an insult, humour or not, in this forum. Dante, i'll admit, i find amusing, but he's also the most patronising, arrogant person on here.
And in response to your comment about "doing something about it". I'm here for the banter with other members, not to post countless threads. I support the site in anyway i can with VIP etc but to be honest, recently there's very few people i relate to on this board so therefore i feel no urge to post threads on this board.