<p>Anyone who visits CrossValidated for more than 10 minutes will notice your ubiquitous great contributions to this site, and anyone who visits longer will recognize your enormously valuable insight and skill as a statistician.</p>

<p>When high-profile moderators like yourself across the SE network make this decision it might finally get the message through to those in charge that they are really taking steps in the wrong direction. </p>

<p>I really hope that this brings about a positive change, and that all these sites do not truly lose their most valuable members as moderators this way... but perhaps I am being too optimistic. Regardless, I think it is a very noble thing to do, after the tremendous effort you must have put in to get where you are now.</p>
