Freebase Dali

Wow, well I hope that we all at least make sure the ship is sinking before we go and jump off it. We've been doing fine with the absence of invested administration. Who knows, maybe this whole recent gagglef*ck is the start of something good, like a change in the way this place is run?

Might be worth it to stick around and see.

Guybrush

Sure, I'm not putting a ship-jumping scheme in motion, but I don't exactly feel like I owe the administration anything. Me and many others like yourself have added real worth to this site by working here for free, banning spammers, by writing guides and making content. You know it's a lot of work. Never once have I seen any appreciation from administration. All I feel like I've seen from them is a fair share of rejection and a lack of interest and respect.

I care about the community. Not the design of this forum or the domain name. If this community moved to a different place, perhaps that would be better for all of us .. except administration who would have a dead site on their hands, but do we really owe them anything?

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Freebase Dali

Well, you kinda say it all right here. We care about the community. It's why we're here. We're not here for the appreciation and respect of the administration. What's more, we can survive pretty well without it... as we have thus far.
I think the important thing that separates us from any other place on the web is this exact value in all of us and how we're still able to carve out a great place on the internet with so little to work with.

I don't feel like we owe anything to MB as a company either, but I do think we're all in a position to extend our finer qualities to a wider audience here at MB. We get new users every day, some good, some bad, because of what this website is and where it stands on the internet. We can choose to abandon that for more control of our site that we don't need in order to maintain what we are, or we can choose to stay with what little that we do have and capitalize on the success of a website that is already in a position to keep our community alive and breathing.

GuitarBizarre

I'm not going to go out and register a domain for us to jump to right now, I know that.

But on the other hand, the aforementioned modojo forums...well.

First off, they were segadojo in the late 90s, then they were cloudchaser.com until they had a big server crash in 2001, they ran into money troubles, sold the forums, became xengamers in 2002, then that was sold off to paragon entertainment and became xengen in 2003, which went under and was bought back by patrick, who renamed it Modojo in 2005. We suffered under that name with a lack of interest for the period 2005-2011, then made our mass exodus to cloudchaser just as the modojo site was being sold AGAIN to eurogamer. Right now their website says they're part of industrygamers inc.

And their forum is actually so very dead they've removed all links to it from the main website. 11 years worth of posts and the only people who can read them are spambots with the old forum URL in their lists, because none of the people who made those posts go there anymore.