And again, 200 is something you HAVE TO TUNE yourself. It's free will, nobody is forcing you to listen to, or even SEE what you're complaining about. New players, 2 weekers, have to actually figure out that there IS a 200, and tune to it. So far as being accused of being a spy on green country channel, see what I said above - a new player is obvious by new player type questions, somebody coming back to the game after knowing how to play it, and knowing all of the ins and outs of the politics and problems, yet plays it off like they are a "new" player - then complains that people call him a spy? Uh huh. I'd love to HT to show the logs of this player, and show precisely what went on so far as how that whole " I was griefed and called a spy constantly" came about. I have 2 friends, both new to online gaming (pilots) that joined AH for a while last year, and they had no complaints about being constantly accused of spying, or any grief at all. You get what you put in for the most part, like everywhere else.
Again, all the whining about poor sports, no fights, and some systemic group of bad eggs - it's mostly on a channel you can just NOT TUNE in the first place.
Cleaning house in the MA, like you said happened on the bbs - what, wasn't it about a grand total of 4 people, maybe 5 that got PNG'd, half of whom still fly in the MA and have never been problem children in there - Have you ever seen Grizz start anything on 200, or more importantly grief a 2 weeker? I doubt it. I do agree that some guys seem to fly just to be problem children on 200, and again, all one needs to do is de-tune 200, and bye bye problem child. I also agree more moderators on 200 could have an effect, however I would counter that if a player sees something so awful there that they just can't handle it, detuning would have a better effect.
IMO a good test run to see if what is being claimed is such a huge problem actually IS, would be to remove 200 and the ability to PM anyone but teamates from the game for a couple weeks. See what the fallout is from that. Would there be even MORE complaints, or would it stimulate the kinder, gentler AH that you seem to yearn for Fugitive? I'd be interested to see myself.
What goes on in the MA is no different than what happens in every other online game, even every other MMO game. EVE, WT, WoT, CS, BF, all of them have the same environment, negative and positive, that exists in AH. You think people complain about "hordes" here? Ever heard of Goonswarm, gate camping, and all the other problems at Eve? Google it, they have their own wikipedia for gods sake. What you are worked up about here at AH pales in comparison to the problems in other games. Yet new players still join and stay in those games, and they have all experienced huge growth, where as AH has not. Trying to pass off that lack of growth by saying that the environment in the MA or even the BBS has been SO negatively affected by the problems you describe Fugi to cause it, the same problems that every other game out there has (complaints and problem children), flies like a lead balloon, and no, not the one on Mythbusters.