closed million+ monthly forum coz of spammers, now what?
AdeN: Peter, as a daily user of your site, (PBH), for over 5 years, I cannot understand this unannounced decision. The site is an unexplained winner, a freak, or in other words; you struck lucky.The whole thing has been a glorious mix of debate, idiocy, playground banter, wit and solid information for a long time. In my view, you could have solved the obvious problems by simply having delayed registration, anonymous moderation, deleting rogue users' IP addresses, offensive comments and threads without explanation. But I know nothing of these things and I pretty much stopped posting some time ago because I realised I ended up much happier not doing so.Many saw the site as a democracy when that should/was not the case.You have allowed this to become personal, and the trolls fed on that and in a way, (many ways), made it a success; the whole host of satellite sites you allude to was sparked by your suggestion. I agree, they are nasty, dysfunctional, needy people the likes of whom you should have never bothered yourself. Their efforts will now flourish, (briefly), an essential tool and meeting-place for many will disappear. You will have gained nothing and the response from the peanut gallery on going back would be terrible, I suppose ;-)I fail to see how just throwing it all away solves things, or is it a posture? I would gladly buy it off you if I knew how to run it, technically.Tambien estoy en Colombia y te mando un abrazo, amigo...graciasAlma del Norte