Yes, but don't buy it off *him* on principle.  Get it from some new place we don't have an issue with.  He *needs* to be out of pocket with an unwanted servr to make sure he never tries it again.

I get the feeling other side issues are creeping in now.  Never mind swords and posturing. I will go on record as saying that while I will not do anything to obstruct your plan taking over the site as is, it is far from being my favorite outcome.  It gives him something.   I think he should leave with nothing.  If there is $500 going spare, give it to the staff and creators of InSimenator to pay for their new hosting and domain.

Would be amusing to take away Walt's admin status.  Funny if he didn't have a clue how to get it back again

Simpleprincess, the final decision has not been taken about where the new site will be.  I am sure there will be announcements all over the place when it happens.

But this is meant to be about stopping Walt/Kathy/Eric making anything out of the community not just saving ourselves.  If all the people who are reading this update with fake email addys, there are still several thousand genuine email addresses left on that database for him to profit from.  Surely the only way to be sure of preventing a smile from Walt on the way to his bank is to wipe the userbase?

Would it be a good idea to burn the userdatabase on the way out (apart from staff and creators)?   Might be a quick but not quite so illegal way of stopping the sheep pouring their donations in.

It may also have been an idea not to post the fact actually where walt can read it every time a creator yanks their stuff.  Cos he may be able to remove deletion rights from everyone.  In fact it's only a tickbox he needs to untick!

I strongly suggest an admin wipes out the insimenator download section ASAP.  That's what draws people to the site and gets them donating the most.  If Walt manages to salvage that section he's half way won.

Hehe - I suppose it's not possible to actually change the target fund that the paypal buttons point to, is it?

Well I am going to stand up and disagree.  Creators who don't want their creations on InSimenator making money for Walt should remove them *now*.   If circumstances change, they can be replaced from the backup Pescado now has safely.

Many of the creators only agreed to leave their stuff up for the duration of the pillaging on the understanding it would be burnt as soon as that finished.

Think about it - if Walt finds out how to make the site secure, he can lock those downloads in and continue operating the site at a profit.  We're never going to be able to reach all the more naive visitors to that site in order to divert their donations to the splinter sites.

The downloads *must* be removed in order for us to have anything over walt at all.

The InSimenator download is still there, and there is a PayPal button right next to it.  As we sit there posting revolutionary messages, the sheep are still mashing the paypal button and Walt's till is jingling.

There's still too many downloads on the site for my liking.  Why haven't they burnt?  If the downloads are still there after he's found out how to delete our accounts, there will be lambs donating to his silly site for years.

Let's just burn the place down and walk away.  We don't want it - it's haunted.

Reciepts won't tell us whether the hosting company will deal with us.   If someone has $500 to throw away on this proposed deal why don't we give it to the staff cooperative and let them spend it how they need setting up their new arrangements?