I've said it b4, i'll say it again, you can blame things such as the 1.8 update being forced on us, staff being "Corrupt", glitches in the community, leaderboard reset, whatever you may blame the decline of mcsg on, I still say the biggest thing that destroyed this community, was the community itself.
What makes this community rage more than anything these days? Hackers, teamers and trash talking.
The community is the ones who use hacked clients. I'm not talking so much about the crazy fly hacking/speed times 10 hacker cuz every server has those (we do seem to have more than most servers), I'm talking about the ghost client, triggerbot, etc etc users. People who care so much about wins and losses that they have to cheat to win a game to make themselves look good. If everyone would just play legit, it would be nice.
The community members are the ones who trash talk on consistent basis which gets people to rage out. It's the community members who team consistently, then rage when people do the same back to them. It's the community members who do the most scumbag things to get a win on this server and say "whatever it takes to win".
People like these people ruin this community. Friendly competition and fair fights were what made this community great at one point. People wanted to prove themselves as good players by fairly killing poeple higher ranked than themselves. Now, people kill someone higher ranked than themselves, they call them bad, say EZ, and trash talk that person.
I have no problems with this server except for the things that the community itself does. I can handle occasional glitches and bugs, what bothers me the most are the people who make this place not fun to be on.