No problems with Drew.
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RicAgu, are you a Drew plant? I noticed another thread you started on LL that was equally offensive and as personal an attack on RG and Mike as your post here. I'm not going to get into a debate with you about them. I would hope that you don't poison this forum. Or that if you try to, you get knocked off this one like RG apparently knocked you off his. And no, won't respond to what I expect you will throw my way.
I do hope though that this forum doesn't become one that we're driven away from by the likes of these kinds of posts.
William you're right. The promise that Drew made seems to be simply unture -- at least at the moment. When you do a search for James Russell you pull up only 200 or so posts from the last few months. (You can get on the site with your old name and password without paying for the moment, but can't post.) I did a search before the site went down with JR's name to be able to key in the posts I wanted to download, and there were more than 700.
So Drew has not kept the archive of the site open. Just a mirage of it. When you read his discussion about a "three month rolling archive" system, he's apparently clueing us in to what he's done already, and then will have confirmed by the vote he plans to have of his paid membership -- which by his count in one of his threads is about 100.
the rolling archive thread:
[a href=\"http://www.prophotocommunity.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=422127&an=0&page=0#Post422127]http://www.prophotocommunity.com/ubbthread...ge=0#Post422127[/url]
membership numbers thread:
http://www.prophotocommunity.com/ubbthread...ge=0#Post422174Hope we're just missing something, or that this will be changed now, but from what we saw last weekend (all those dozens of threads with all the RG members objecting to the whole idea of a closed forum are officially gone) have a feeling we've got it right.
What is so odd about it all -- not counting the meltdown, which still makes you shake your head -- is that if Drew and Co had taken a moment to try and understand the nature of the RG membership, and how it differs from their current site, and kept the site open and encouraged people back they would have been booming by now.
For those who missed it, the site was brought down "for technical reasons" a bit after RG, who was still the moderator at the time and allowing members to speak freely as long as they didn't get personal, deleted a post of one of the new moderators for making a personal attack on an RG member. Now that was a fitting end!
Let's hope LL becomes a good place to continue the kinds of discussions that flourished on RG --which is the only reason I'm making the effort to respond directly to the stuff above. It's important to not let LL get hijacked.
Steven