This Walt must be very trusting.  He has left several people with Admin status, not taken care to ensure they are on his side (in fact knows some of them are not), and gone off to eat turkey for the day.  Heck for all he knows they could be deleting the whole site by now  

If I was him, I would have done an immediate lockdown, and held talks with the staff before deciding which ones should keep their roles.

Wipe out Kathy and Eric's forums too?  (doh where is the evil grinnie?)

I really can't imagine Eric doing any more work on InSim after this!

I don't mind ads really, as long as they are for stuff I can buy, not all American things.  And as long as none of them have spiders suddenly running across your screen, like one that TSR used to have.  That put me off logging in there for ages.

There is something I have never really understood.  What do unpaid moderators and admins do it for, unless it is because they like the site owner a lot and want to help them keep the site running?  Why do so many people work as moderators for sites where they say they don't like the owner, or don't approve of all the rules, yet they still work, unrewarded, at enforcing them?   I know the answer you often hear is that the person likes helping users, but they could help the other users without being moderators.   The only thing that moderators can do that non-staff helpful people cannot, is delete posts and reprimand users.

This is not aimed at any individual BTW!

Same here!  And isn't it just encouraging people to post rubbish when they didn't have anything to say?

Is that why they have these weird games of guess what the person on top of you is up to?

We don't even know who he is really.  If Eric and kathy could pretend they hardly had enough money to pay the costs of the site when in fact they were running at $2500 profit a month, what's to say they can't be pretending to be called Walt now, so as to deflect some of the personal attacks they would have found themselves under with this change of tactic?   On the sock puppet theory, remember the sock has to put a distance between himself and the hand up his ass.  What was the first thing Walt felt he needed to say to us?  "I don't play The Sims".  Now that's a funny opening gambit when you think of all the things he could have said to *close* the gap between him and us!   He's trying to appear as different from his puppet masters (or co-conspirators) as he possibly can.

An alternative reason why MTS2 and InSim are seeming quiet lately is that there isn't a BV *public* release of SimPE.  I don't think many people know how to get the QA version (Quaxi isn't signing people up currently, and they don't know where it's being shared) or they think it's dodgy getting the under-the-counter version or something.  And they think using the old one with BV might blow up their boot sectors.

ROFL!!

Whatever she may have said one time about her stuff only being for SMB she's hardly likely to feel the same way now she's stormed off from the site.   I can believe she's taken her toys away altogether, but I can't believe she still feels she would like us to have them from SMB exclusively.

All that database-driven stuff certainly makes a site noticeable on the hosts' servers.  Hosting with "unlimited" bandwidth and disk space usually does not offer unlimited processor and database server capacity to match.  You can't beat good old html pages for slipping beneath your hosting radar.

Does anyone know who they were hosted by?

By Shan Ow on the previous page (I wish the post numbers showed then I could point you straight at it).  Shan Ow is also the person who posted on 3Fs asking for donations for them.

This sounds a bit unlikely.  Why would someone who has just stormed off from a site issue an edict that only that site must host their work?

Anyway, someone has offered the site free hosting now, so their problems could be over if they want them to be.  If they prefer to ask for $4000 instead of taking up the free hosting offer then I shall have my opinions about that