I was there through it all. Agreed.
Maybe it's the time of year? The in thing to do? I don't know, but it seems like there are more and more players like Ark on the servers. It has gotten to the point where I can't get a good game in unless there is a BFM present. And when a BFM does arrive, after having put up with Ark for a couple of games, he gets a couple of warnings and all of a sudden starts racing like he hadn't know the rules. Guys (gals?) like him are laughing at us.
Disrupting servers and getting away with it is the "new" game; race is where this new game is played; and racers make this new game possible because we generally don't fight back.
Boot.