Hi DNT!
Pleasure to hear from you as always!
I must admit the thought crossed my mind recently, after I got a PM from weaponepsilon and also Skype chatted with JD. Thing is, any new forum poaching existing members from an already dying and depressed forum with low numbers will only attract a handful of members, and then you are left with links still indirectly to two other forums and almost no membership. It would be a case of "anyone pissed with BH join MR", ok, now you are on MR "anyone pissed with MR and ShockSlayer join xx site" - filter, filter, filter. I think many are fed up with the way both sites behave now and losing interest altogether in the scene as a result.
What I would like to see in contrast, is anyone pissed with BH and MR to join RacketBOY forum and strengthen their numbers and existing membership and make this forum strong. RacketBOY is a good forum.
I had a forum a couple of years ago as you probably know, got a reasonable number of members, about 50 as I recall, about 5 of which were regular posters for a while; then after a while they drift away, as whilst the spotlight is on, people want to be a part of you, then when things go quiet they get bored and go. That is what would happen if we set up a new forum. Don't get me wrong, if you set one up I would like to be a part of it, however my suggestion is for you (as you are on the other sites) to persuade as any people you can to migrate to RacketBOY and join this existing forum of great members. I think BH and MR members have got so pissed with the forums, and especially MR now, that they have lost a lot of interest in the scene anyway. Agree?
Palmer has proven himself to be immensely unreliable in keeping his word and being honourable, in fact he has tried to lie to me on many occasions. SS has shown himself to others now as he shown himself to me; between the two of them they are destroying their own site. There are barely any members on at all these days; just looked, SS and 2 members only!
In case you didn't know, when I left, SS defaced my avatar and removed my sig. I got banned for no good reason (SS made it clear he wanted to kick me though), so couldn't put the matter right. I told Palmer that I did not want to be associated with his site that behaves so disrespectfully and disgracefully and I wanted my account and all my posts deleted, all trace of me gone from MR. He replied that he couldn't as I had posted so much and threads and posts held a lot of the forum together, so he changed "bacteria" to "megabite". That sucks as far as people will see the work I did and attribute to a bot, however better as an alternative I guess; at least i'm not attributed to MR anymore.
Thoughts? (especially in regards to making an existing forum *RacketBOY* strong)?
BTW, weaponepsilon's PM to me was:
On a hilariously unrelated note, I now fully believe your story about MR being Shockslayers playplace. He randomly logs into chat and starts rambling incoherently about something and start rage kicking people out of chat for no reason. Wow. I asked him what was the point of having a chat if all he was going to do was was radnomly kick out people as an abuse of this power. He started to say something related to the topic about calling tech support, when I asked him if he talked to them they same way he talked to us in chat. I am now having second thoughts about continuing my membership there.
John