jeep wrote:

otoh the real problem is not enough quality front page content (ironically not the cables' fault there) to bring in a replacement population of forums denizens, and I have no idea how you'd change that because you'd still need sites linking to that content and...well that's like running a business then, isn't it? see if you had that bringing enough people posting on the forum to spare and had to work to fight spam, it would suddenly seem like less of a hassle to have that moderation, to use vbb instead of code out of a mysql book. it always seemed from here that you weren't really running this with any kind of plan and that's fine, a low-effort listening post for old friends is just fine