Gadianton wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:07 am
the offer was nullified given the present thread, but it doesn't matter since the owner never responded.
I think people should consider the following:
'let's not specify the new owner(s) for the moment, but consider the possibility of moving to a new forum without the present database and starting over. Is that a deal-breaker for anyone? In other words, if we can't move with the database, would anyone simply go their separate way and cease participation?
With a new forum in place, the ball can get rolling with new registrations and better posting experience, and absolutely nothing prevents anyone from linking back to this board for previous content, nor copying posts from here or threads and transplanting, nor using phpBB scrapers to pull content from this site and transplanting.
Then, if we can get the main contributors on board to agree to move forward and not look back, we (or whoever) can continue to try to get a deal made for the database, and if successful, transplant it as an archive to the new forum.
With every day that we post good content to this forum we may be banishing it.
I have some concerns and preferences that I'd like to express here.
1. Starting a new board and moving forward is something I would like to see happen in the very near future if possible.
2. I have concerns about transplanting posts and threads largely having to do with feuds. I would
not like to see those go forward. I
3. If we can get a new board up and running, I would like to propose establishing at least
a temporary rule that prohibits transplanting threads from here to the new board or if at all possible, this board locked until we are underway, in order to prevent the carrying forward of old feuds or if nothing else, to serve as a cooling off period. If posters develop new feuds on the new board, that's okay with me so long as they function within the board rules. I just don't want to see old feuds dragged along with us if at all possible, particularly those that involve rule violations.
4. In the future, I would like to see
whole threads nominated for transplanting. Posters send the links to Shades where he has the final say and does the transplanting starting with the Hall of Fame threads and adding to those if Shades is willing to take HoF threads and move them forward as a beginning to a new HoF thread. I realize that if the board could be locked that would mean opening it back up for nominations and transplanting.
5. I would very much like to see this board archived to serve as a board history. Otherwise, I'm all for a clean slate.
Gad, I trust you implicitly. Just tell us how to donate for the new board and if you will, give us a time frame with a drop dead date to collect the amount needed.