I've heard your story about this earlier and i can kind of understand, but the fact remains that you kept the RL money. Ranks are fucking up stuff sometimes and i agree that they're not perfect, but i prefer improving ourselves over leaving the friends i have here.
The issue with the ely's probably lost you most of your friends here. When you tried to come back, that kept following you because nobody completely trusted you like before.
I have nothing against you personally but topics like these only make things worse.