I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other.  If either Pes or Delphy took over InSim I would give them my moral support.  But idealogically, because I am rooted in the past, I'd love to see the staff and creators set something up for themselves with their own new ideas that they could not do while E&K held the reins.

How do you know he owns a server?  It's probably just one of those dedicated hosting deals, not a colocation.

Pescado, seriously I think it's a bad idea to even suggest it.  A large number of InSim users will think you are seriously proposing to give money to this guy and the "donations" will come streaming in like obedient sheep.   I think the irony will be above the heads of a large proportion of people. 

If people have got donations to spare, let them give them to the *new* site.

I agree.  And besides, it's always going to hold reminders of the people I thought were my friends but who ripped me off.  I think it is spoiled now, and let the people who were part of the InSimenator community regroup and form their own, genuine, community site.

We don't know.  He could even be Eric trying it on, having failed to sell.  Where is the proof of the transaction?

Pescado!  Are you losing your marbles?  We ALREADY paid more than the server costs for that site - those of us who donated.  Now you are suggesting that we pay more than the value of what he actually has for sale?   The only thing that is his to sell is the domain.  I can probably buy the community something called Insimenator.sillydomainnames for $20.   He CANNOT sell and I WILL NOT buy from him what is not his to sell.

You don't believe all that tear-jerker makes-me-seem-human stuff about an old mother?  

It's a big try-on.  He owns only the domain name and the tail end of a month's hosting agreement (unless *he* made a new one with the existing hosts).    Come on - that particular IP address is not essential to InSimenator.  Nor is the exact layout and graphics.  We have the people and between us we have all the files.   Members can start NEW threads just as fun and "home" as the old ones.

I don't trust Walt.  How do we know after this "vigorous" fundraising he won't just pocket it like his friends Kathy and Eric did?  And yes, I do now believe they had a prior relationship, for reasons I stated earlier today.

Carry on the pillaging, followed by burning, I say!  We do not HAVE to buy him out of what is already ours.

Kill him!

Ooh!  It's up!!

Totally agree about the relative 12ishness (maybe more correctly 6ishness?)

I am following Pescado's instructions.  I might be seen as a bit of a maverick, but once I have decided that a particular campaign is the best way to go, I follow the instructions of the person leading that campaign until or unless it is doomed to failure.  When you're pillion on a bike, you get further more smoothly and safely if you lean the same way as the rider round bends.

ETA in the interests of complete honesty, I clicked on my insim link *once* in the last 24hrs just to see if it was up.  Then I closed the window without going anywhere.   I guess if people must see for themselves how things stand, once a day quick check would be the least obstructive.

EETTAA I deleted my link so I won't be as tempted.

And presumably when she does take donations, they do what they say on the tin - go towards the expenses of the site.

I think if any site finds their donations in excess of their expenses they ought to either hand them on to a site with similar policies that still has unmet costs, or take down the donation button till they have spent what they already got.   Alternatively do what they did at Parsimonious, when they said we don't need any financial help here, but if people insist on donating, we'll spend it on a treat for ourselves, or words along those lines.  I was so impressed with the honesty that I gave them something towards a box of chocolates lol!   I think they're seriously taking donations nowadays though, as the site is getting more and more costly, presumably.

But you do have factual accuracy standards  (Apart from the occasional paranoia fantasia)