So far, everyone seems to have been very polite and sorry and apologetic about this, but quite frankly, Pads, I disagree. I think you're being melodramatic and perching precariously on a high horse of double standards. I'll start by saying right out that I'm probably taking this more personally than the others - I consider you my friend, not just a fellow PPCer - but I'm angry with you. I'll try to be objective nonetheless, but no promises.
Firstly, I'm going to echo what the others have said: This is the first I've heard of ANYONE around here not knowing what the DBS is. ever. Considering that it's in the Original Series and mentioned very often in other missions as well as here on the Board, I don't see how it's possible for anyone but a very green newbie not to know. I don't know who asked you that question in the Loungue, but why are you taking that as an indication of what the community as a whole thinks?
Second, as Neshomeh said, you haven't made it nearly clear enough that you think change is needed, let alone made specific suggestions. You haven't even really been around - lurking, maybe, but if you want a change, you need to contribute more than a rant-like post every so often. It's hard to get things moving around here, and I don't think it's fair that you sit back in silence for months on end and then say this. I knew you weren't exactly thrilled with how things are right now, but I had no idea you were this disgruntled, and we talk off-Board, yet the only person who seemed to have a real idea of your mindset was Trojie. Why did you have to up and leave so suddenly - couldn't you have made a "change is needed and I'm really tempted to leave" post first? I realise you've been unhappy for a while, but this whole post sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to one little incident - which, to be quite frank, is something I can see you doing on impulse and regretting later.
Next point: I've listened to you talk about 'more than just killing' and have spent months thinking about how I could remedy that in my own missions at least. Though I haven't had time to actually write it yet, my next pieces is going to involve Agent Sedri being rebuked for her bloodthirsty tendencies and sent into several non-Sue missions. I regret that my early missions - the first one in particular - were so graphically violent and killing-oriented. If this were any other kind of story I'd take them down and re-write, but the nature of the PPC isn't too condusive to that (given how easily our characters can become aware of being written themselves). I don't like slash and probably never will, but I'm more than willing to try sending Agent Sedri into a bad slash mission, and if that doesn't work, I plan to try crossovers. You don't object to crossovers, do you? After all, that Department isn't particularly well-known... Oh, but I'll bet no one is surprised to hear me mention it. How odd.
Fine, fine, I'll stop with the sarcasm. Try this: You have an aversion to Sues. I have an aversion to slash. Where do you get off telling me that I'm in the wrong? I have read slash missions, you know - yours, and others'. I've read slash stories as a favour to you and Trojie, though I've never liked them. Despite cringing at the bad grammar, I've read TOS - several times. I'm sorry, Pads, but I'm seeing a rather blatent double-standard here.
Also, I'm sorry that gruesome and violent deaths have become too much. It's true; they have. But let's not forget that Jay and Acacia inflicted some truly horrible deaths on their targets, and no one seems to be scolding them for that. Why am I feeling attacked here?
Yes, Miss Cam needs a beta, too. Everyone needs a beta - even I, even you, and you're the Grammar Nazi Queen. Even so, betas don't catch everything. Miss Cam's work is readable, and there's a dramatic difference between her errors and those of a chatspeak-writing fanbrat who clearly doesn't care at ALL. I'm not excusing those errors - it's the responsibility of every writer to get a beta - but you're being too hard on her, on everyone. If you feel personally insulted for not being consulted... well, too bad. Get over it. I'll remind you that you don't have to read it, and you don't have to like it just because others like it and call it "legendary"; there are some fanfics out there with very bad presentation that I read anyway because the story is so good - I've offered to beta and been turned down, but I still read because the story is worthwhile. If it upsets you that the wiki directs people to Miss Cam as a good example, change it. Make a comment in the article or delete the link. No one will object,
Also, no life? Why do you think I'm not here half the time? And if seeing the problems in my missions and actively seeking to correct them isn't considered 'grown up', then what is? Perhaps you didn't mean me when you said "the majority of you". You probably didn't; you probably meant the large number of newbies whom you haven't even talked to.
Of course it was noticed when you stopped writing - or don't you recall that people were asking about your missions, some putting a great deal of effort into trying to find them? Ah, but maybe you weren't around the Board at the time. Still, how often are particular PPC authors actually sought out like that? I'll tell you, no one has asked why I stopped writing; I guess my missions just weren't interesting enough. Oh, well. I'm not fussed. Why are you? I realise you put a lot of work into it - I've seen it - but the PPC is still supposed to be FUN, not about getting recognition. If I send my agent to the Department of Crossovers and in six months, a newbie reacts with surprise at the mention of the name, would I have a right to be upset? Probably not.
Last, even if you have excellent counter-arguments for everything I've said here, I don't see how you storming out like this is going to help matters, unless you think the shock value and making people feel guilty is going to manage it. If you want to leave, fine - I'll miss you, but it's your choice. But leaving like this... Maybe you don't see it as storming out, but I do. Text without tone or body language has a funny way of coming across differently than one might intend.
I don't want to be angry at you, Pads. You're my friend, and despite the acerbity of your post, it seems like you meant it to come across as a fairly even-handed explanation. It just didn't come across that way to me, likely because, as said, I'm taking this personally, or am just reading too much into this. I don't know.
...That's probably everything. At the very least, I'm out of words. I know I'll probably regret some of this and won't have made myself clear enough about other bits and will end up explaining myself or taking various things back, but right now, this is what I think.