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momoftrips, I couldn't help but remember this reply, this was from mid-Sep, but it indicates that you at least know something...... maybe, perhaps?

momoftrips wrote:

atem wrote:

chloep wrote:Plus a question to the mods.... Can we make seperate threads for each "confirmed" contestant, it would be easier;) and in this thread we could do general contestant sleuthing

You may want to PM one of them, because I haven't seen a post from love_me or San in over a month. :Frown: 

 
Not sure about San but Love_me is very busy with work right now. :Frown:

This site continues to be moderated by "Forum_Administrator", so someone empowered is quietly maintaining the site.

Also, while this forum was initially set up as a free Forumotion forum, that change a while back when San and Love purchased their own domain and moved us over. Forumotion can only intervene when owning the domain and here they don't.

It's hard enough to run a popular single purpose forum and much harder to run multiple foams within one, thus becoming everything to everyone. Could be San and Love are taking a bit of time to think things through.

If Love and San are too busy in their personal lives for this site, my only hope is that if they do decide to appoint a few mods to help maintain and keep order to BBF, is that it be people who are known for being impartial and not ones who tend to be "fans" of the lead, the F1 or the contestant who is the fan fave that season. Many who were around at this boards inception know that the original creed was that it not be a fan site, but a site where the only real "rule" was to show respect to your fellow posters, but the reality show contestants were open to criticism. That seems to have been forgotten along the way and the reason that many long time posters have moved on.

northernviewer wrote:If Love and San are too busy in their personal lives for this site, my only hope is that if they do decide to appoint a few mods to help maintain and keep order to BBF, is that it be people who are known for being impartial and not ones who tend to be "fans" of the lead, the F1 or the contestant who is the fan fave that season.  Many who were around at this boards inception know that the original creed was that it not be a fan site, but a site where the only real "rule" was to show respect to your fellow posters, but the reality show contestants were open to criticism.  That seems to have been forgotten along the way and the reason that many long time posters have moved on.

Great post, NV, especially the bolded.  

I agree with NV as well, but was only thinking of a temporary fix to archive and organize. I heard back from Forumotion. The domain name expires a year from the date they bought it. And again, was told 6 months and 1 day. Despite the number of members on this site, they seemed uninterested in looking into the matter further. They just restated their rules. Several members here think love_me and San are just taking a break, so let's hope they're right.

I think they'll be back for the next season. I personally don't do spoilers until a few weeks into the season, and I got the feeling that Love wants to be as spoiler free as long possible this time too. I think last season proved that the spoiler is only as reliable as the source and I'm not talking about Love or RS, I'm talking about the source that outright lied to them. Some seasons spoilers may be right, but I think we need to keep in mind that MF has the ability to send out "foilers" too. I personally think that it's a feather in Love, San and BBF's cap that MF considered them to big part of Bach spoiler world and were fed false spoilers the same as they did RS!!

I personally feel that early spoilers ruin the "bachelor experience" where you try to figure out by the edit, body language and PI's etc what the real story is. Who the F1 ends up being, isn't the whole story, as we've seen with Des and Emily.

I'm feeling hopeful that old-fashioned sleuthing is going to be the main focus this season and that spoilers won't be considered gospel anymore.  

northernviewer wrote:I think they'll be back for the next season.  I personally don't do spoilers until a few weeks into the season, and I got the feeling that Love wants to be as spoiler free as long possible this time too.  I think last season proved that the spoiler is only as reliable as the source and I'm not talking about Love or RS, I'm talking about the source that outright lied to them.  Some seasons spoilers may be right, but I think we need to keep in mind that MF has the ability to send out "foilers" too.  I personally think that it's a feather in Love, San and BBF's cap that MF considered them to big part of Bach spoiler world and were fed false spoilers the same as they did RS!!

I personally feel that early spoilers ruin the "bachelor experience" where you try to figure out by the edit, body language and PI's etc what the real story is. Who the F1 ends up being, isn't the whole story, as we've seen with Des and Emily.  

I'm feeling hopeful that old-fashioned sleuthing is going to be the main focus this season and that spoilers won't be considered gospel anymore.   

Couldn't have said it better myself!  
So much is pre-fabricated with this show, for me it has truly worn out its welcome.

One thing we have not talked about is the fact that this site has a dedicated domain name. Usually it has to be renewed every year (i.e. someone has to pay for it annually). If the admins of this site truly abandoned this site and do not renew the domain name, this site can expire at anytime and nobody will be able to log on or load this site in their browsers. This could happen before the 6 months 1 day Forumotion policy kicks into place. I think we should do something soon instead of taking a chance and wait for the admins who may or may not return.

I can get your concern as you've only been a member since March, but Love and San have been around for a long time, not just on this board but were FORT members too and my gut tells me that they'll either come back or if their life doesn't allow for them to keep up with the board anymore, that they'll hand it over to somebody who can. I can tell by my join date that this board was started in March 2011, so the domain name is fine until spring.

And seriously, if all else fails--life really will go on!

Kashathediva wrote:And seriously, if all else fails--life really will go on!

I concur

northernviewer wrote:

Kashathediva wrote:And seriously, if all else fails--life really will go on!

I concur

As do I.