tatu wrote:why have it been almost 3 years before anyone even started to do anything about it?
No need to be hostile. I'm in charge of Forum Administration and none of these mooks can do anything to you without first bringing it up to me. And personally I like you, even if you sometimes take things the wrong way.
It is only now that Mickey has received the ability and permission from MP to work on the website and forums, as well as had the time to do it. It's been on the table that entire time, it's just that none of us really had the time to do anything about it ourselves.
I discussed forum reorganization with the other admins a while ago and saw that it was necessary. No one informed me it was actually being done until I was asked if the JPO forums could be combined. For that I am disappointed but change is inevitable. Nothing can stay the same for too long or else it dies out. That's true for everything. We may not like the change or the change may be difficult to get used to, but it's a necessary part of life.
Machf wasn't casting new blame on Draco, in fact I'm half to blame for it too as I had originally OK'd Draco's first version of the forum layout for a
different site which would have been created
if TresCom actually shut down during the Gamespy fiasco in 2009. We were planning on doing a general Jurassic Park site. After MP's return from vacation and set up the new server, Draco decided he wanted to make TresCom that site as it already had an established community. I didn't really agree with him but he changed the forums to what he shot by me earlier. That got pared down to what it was until recently due to the massive outrage he caused by doing it.
I think that was the misunderstanding that most things that came after snowballed onto. You have to remember that during that time I was essentially in charge of all of TresCom, not just the forum but the site and all the affairs related to it and MP took a backseat. I think Draco took what I said to him to mean that I was giving him permission to do it.
So there is that, no spin, no Draco bashing. Just what happened. I screwed up, he screwed up. What's done is done.
I had spent two of those years getting essentially berated for my knee-jerk reaction to what Draco was doing concerning the site, hence my hostility the last few times this topic has come up. I won't make excuses, but I won't take all the blame either.
Consider the Draco situation over. No one bring it up anymore. We can't focus on one single blotch in our history and let it define us. We are better than that and I have grown up since then. And quit looking to the past as the golden age of TresCom and work to bring another in the future. Division will only tear us down, not build us up.
I'm sorry for snapping at you in the past and I sincerely apologize. I hope we can all put this nonsense behind us and get back to doing what we are here to do.
Together.