I also came from top100clans so I can't hate on the site. There are two schools of thought here. The first is that it brings an awareness of CAG out there thereby leading to more recruits. The second is that a majority of those recruits don't make it or are not what we are looking for. In my opinion it does bring a lot of traffic to the site and some become valuable members but I could see that maybe we've outgrown it and should take a brake from that. Besides we could always revisit the idea later.
As to the ads I would not want it to get to the point that the site would be in jeopardy so you do what you gotta do, but if it's for improvements than I'm sure there are a lot of ideas we could come up with(maybe even make thread on everyone's input) other than more ads. I like Reaper's store idea BTW. Ads are fine as long as they don't take away from the site.
Everything else on conduct that Jadzia has covered I'm in full agreement on. I understand spats will happen but a lot of them can be resolved without ever going public on the forums.
I also know how much trust Cheech has in Jadzia from past takeovers, on his approval, so I'm confident those changes are for the best and Cheech is lucky to have such a skilled person give him a break!