I say fuck Damian. Sure, I'm appreciative of him for providing a free service, but I'm ticked that he yanked it out from under us with absolutely no warning. With a little notice I could have saved members addresses to tell them where our new home was and I could have salvaged any threads I wanted to move here. I think of all the time I spent on movie reviews that are now forever lost... Thanks a lot, Damian. No, we're staying here. I'm not putting us at his mercy again. He never responded to any attempts to contact him in recent years anyway.
Yeah it was kind of a shock when the whole thing went bye bye. I know he paid the money to keep it open years past his own interest in the boards, just to keep giving the regs a place to meet up. Honestly though, I don't miss it. I miss having a central place for everyone to meet up, but that is about it. I have kept in contact with everyone in other ways. At MOST there was maybe 10-20 regular TBQ posters who visited daily and the whole thing was money out of Damiens pocket. I dont blame him for pulling it. I DO wish he had made an announcement and given everyone time to pack up and find other digs, but we don't know what happened or what was going on in his life at the time when it was closed.
As for him not responding to emails or giving us a notice, I say, you get what you pay for heh
Bawdy, your feelings and points are correct and 100% valid but since there is nothing we can do to change anything, we just move on with a smile and thank Damien for a great six years.
I would have happily paid a monthly or annual stipend to remain at TBQ if he wanted help in paying the bills. Apparently some people knew the end was coming. So he could have given the moderators a heads up, but chose not to. And now he's decided to continue running the place? Bah!
Bawdy, can't you tell us how you really feel? JK. I know no one came to the writer's block, but I would have liked to copy some of the stuff that was there, it never occured to me that it would go away.
I did like the centralness of the tbq, but I liked the original format better than the newer one. That way I could see if there was new stuff on a board and just hop around all night. But then again, I'm lazy.
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The people who knew the end was coming could have something as well.. at least to the moderators like you two so you could have saved some of the things you wanted.
Did you at least have all the stuff you wrote yourself saved, Wezie? Do you plan on resurrecting The Writer's Block at TBQ or anywhere else?
Krissy, I have no idea if anyone knew for sure that Damian was going to pull the plug, or if so, who. I'm not in regular contact with any of the other moderators anyway.
Some of it I have in hard copy, but a few things were the stuff I lost when my hard drive blew last year. There is a Writer's Block at myspace, but I won't start a board again, I couldn't keep that one going, lol.
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SNAP! That reminds me...Wezie I tried adding you at MySpace but I could not find you. Are you using a different name? I used that Wezie819 and it said "no person or profile found"
I am glad you were able to save some of it Wezie. I lost a lot of good stuff when the WR board was nuked. I had meant for a long time to save the thread where I had talked about meeting up with Joe again, and the thread evolved with me being excited about getting in touch with an old high school boyfriend, the worry if he would still like me after all these years, us falling in love, planning our wedding...etc. It's a shame all that was lost because it was a good record of the most romantic time in my life. I could be bitter and upset about it, but I figure I should have had it saved long before that day anyway. I have journaled about our relationship on floppy disk anyway, so its not like all was lost.
Wezie wrote: Some of it I have in hard copy, but a few things were the stuff I lost when my hard drive blew last year. There is a Writer's Block at myspace, but I won't start a board again, I couldn't keep that one going, lol.
Well, at least you have somewhere where you can submit stuff and have it read. Myspace has tons of members. I'm glad you saved some of it.
Krissy, you could try to write some of those thoughts in a journal while some of the memories are still fresh.
I have some with some of it.. it really is important to try to journal it as it happens because in hindsight you see things differently.
Also, I didnt mean to imply that you all should have been keeping it on disk as well...If it came across that way. That is just how I tell myself to move on
I don't have room to save anything thanks to my incredible shrinking hard drive. Each reboot diminishes its capacity by .4 or .5 GB! I don't like when computers get possessed.
SNAP! That reminds me...Wezie I tried adding you at MySpace but I could not find you. Are you using a different name? I used that Wezie819 and it said "no person or profile found"
I looked everywhere for you at myspace. I have trouble navigating over there. I think you find me under Louise, but I'm not sure, lol.
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