You expect people to listen. I don't know if you remember from your days as a Cop. People don't listen and never have. The difference between Cops at Federal Events versus Civ's at Federal Events is that the Civ's are trying to win for gear as well as have a strategy. You must be disillusion if you think that you can get Jonny with 50 hours on the server to listen when he just wants to fuck around.
I'm interested to see how this plays out. I wish you the best but with the way community manager type roles have been in the past, I'm not counting on it. Good luck and hopefully I am proven wrong.
I can understand how it's frustrating that an update isn't out but you have to remember that the dev's do this in their leisure. They are not paid yet produce some of the best work in the Arma 3 community. I was around when we wouldn't have updates for 2 or 3 months at a time because of the slow process. Y'all need to respect these people and the hard work they put into the community so you can have fun.