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northernviewer wrote: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.  

So I gather by what you are saying that this site was created in March, 2011 and you are one of the first to join this site.  (I am on FORT, too, by the way.)  Still, it is rather disconcerting and unusual for the admins to disappear from this board since mid August.  I run a Forumotion Bachelor/Bachelorette site similar to this one also.  Though I don't post much in the off season, I at least log on every other day, if not everyday, to keep an eye on things (there are forums of other reality shows on my site and some people are still posting).

I hope the mods and admins will come back and acknowledge themselves soon.  It would be a shame to have this site disappear one day and lose all your friends all of a sudden.

What is going on so bad that it is detrimental for the mods to be here all the time. I almost never post here, I do read some and I have seen nothing even spammers that make me think there is a crisis going on. I do agree there needs to be mods added. Bring someone in that doesn't give a rats rear end about these reality tv shows.

Bach98133 wrote: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 guess there isn't much we can do, but thanks for the heads up.

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

Who said it wouldn't?

northernviewer wrote: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.  

Except Amberish said it started as a free forum, so we don't know the month they bought it. Amberish, do you recall the month or around what time of year it was?

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

Yep..

I do think if they want to hand it off to someone, they will. And if they don't, they don't. Create a new board- I'm sure there will be followers.

First of all, I think they're here, but hiding, because someone is moderating.

Anyway, I looked it up. Keep in mind that expiration dates are not always annual and doesn't matter if they are, for domains are easily renewed. From Whois ...

Creation Date: 2013-01-14 08:04:37
Registrar Expiration Date: 2014-01-14 08:04:37

Regardless, Forumotion does not own this site and not even the software, for phpBB is open source and free. Bottom line is, Forumotion can't touch what they don't host and the Forumotion six month rule wouldn't apply if privately hosted.

Bach98133 wrote:

northernviewer wrote: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.  

So I gather by what you are saying that this site was created in March, 2011 and you are one of the first to join this site.  (I am on FORT, too, by the way.)  Still, it is rather disconcerting and unusual for the admins to disappear from this board since mid August.  I run a Forumotion Bachelor/Bachelorette site similar to this one also.  Though I don't post much in the off season, I at least log on every other day, if not everyday, to keep an eye on things (there are forums of other reality shows on my site and some people are still posting).

I hope the mods and admins will come back and acknowledge themselves soon.  It would be a shame to have this site disappear one day and lose all your friends all of a sudden.

It's not about what boards we are members of, my point is that some of us have been around a long time and our board names mean something to us and we've carried them from board to board and the names come with a certain reputation.  So the name Love_Me or San (and there's a long line of other names that have been around for years and years) might not mean much to you or other newbies, but they mean something to many of us.  I'm quite confident that this board will be just fine.

Amberish wrote:First of all, I think they're here, but hiding, because someone is moderating.

Anyway, I looked it up. Keep in mind that expiration dates are not always annual and doesn't matter if they are, for domains are easily renewed. From Whois ...

Creation Date: 2013-01-14 08:04:37
Registrar Expiration Date: 2014-01-14 08:04:37

Regardless, Forumotion does not own this site and not even the software, for phpBB is open source and free. Bottom line is, Forumotion can't touch what they don't host and the Forumotion six month rule wouldn't apply if privately hosted.

Thank you for doing the research. I see Forumotion's logo on the top left corner of the screen. Isn't that an indication that this site is hosted on Forumotion?

Bach98133 wrote:

Amberish wrote:First of all, I think they're here, but hiding, because someone is moderating.

Anyway, I looked it up. Keep in mind that expiration dates are not always annual and doesn't matter if they are, for domains are easily renewed. From Whois ...

Creation Date: 2013-01-14 08:04:37
Registrar Expiration Date: 2014-01-14 08:04:37

Regardless, Forumotion does not own this site and not even the software, for phpBB is open source and free. Bottom line is, Forumotion can't touch what they don't host and the Forumotion six month rule wouldn't apply if privately hosted.

Thank you for doing the research.  I see Forumotion's logo on the top left corner of the screen.  Isn't that an indication that this site is hosted on Forumotion?

It is normally....

I posted in the SeanCat threads, but this is probably a far better place for it. The forum admin account is the first one that's created when you make a board, and as such, probably love , maybe San or both are the ones who access that as well. So there isn't a third party secretly administering to us.

I found the same expiry date - IE Jan, and the same stretch of time for us to be modless - six months and a day. That will take us to mid Feb by the time we can fix this ourselves.

My proposed solution is first to get off the custom domain - go back to bachandbachettefans.forumotion.com - and not have to worry about the board ceasing to exist. Since we can't access the admin panel, posting here is probably the next best bet - http://help.forumotion.com/t126319-custom-domain-removal Grace, maybe you since you've already been in contact before??

The second thing is then to keep trying to reach the mods and to keep working on forumotion to give us access, with of course the caveat that if love or San come back, they get dibs on admin again.

I am not denying that life will go on with or without this board, but I was something like one of the first ten to join this board, and I would hate to see all our work go to waste after building this wonderful community. Just from reading this thread, I see about six of us who would be able to help mod, and maybe in the future it will help prevent any one (or two) people from getting overwhelmed in the future. Oh and even should they come back, I think we should suggest that they expand to create a mod team to help them. I apologize very much if I'm stepping on any toes, but I'll be happy to help or do in any capacity that is required of me.

ninu wrote:I posted in the SeanCat threads, but this is probably a far better place for it. The forum admin account is the first one that's created when you make a board, and as such, probably love , maybe San or both are the ones who access that as well. So there isn't a third party secretly administering to us.

I found the same expiry date - IE Jan, and the same stretch of time for us to be modless - six months and a day. That will take us to mid Feb by the time we can fix this ourselves.

My proposed solution is first to get off the custom domain - go back to bachandbachettefans.forumotion.com - and not have to worry about the board ceasing to exist. Since we can't access the admin panel, posting here is probably the next best bet - http://help.forumotion.com/t126319-custom-domain-removal Grace, maybe you since you've already been in contact before??

The second thing is then to keep trying to reach the mods and to keep working on forumotion to give us access, with of course the caveat that if love or San come back, they get dibs on admin again.

I am not denying that life will go on with or without this board, but I was something like one of the first ten to join this board, and I would hate to see all our work go to waste after building this wonderful community. Just from reading this thread, I see about six of us who would be able to help mod, and maybe in the future it will help prevent any one (or two) people from getting overwhelmed in the future. Oh and even should they come back, I think we should suggest that they expand to create a mod team to help them. I apologize very much if I'm stepping on any toes, but I'll be happy to help or do in any capacity that is required of me.

Well said nunu. I joined 2 months after its creation (I was previously on FORT like a lot of us) and we are like a little community here. I would hate to lose the sense of community.

Me too, Starshine!