Well, Im an honest pirate and I did go there and found this little gem:

In response to why is the site (Insim) having problems loading...

"Actually, it's been happening for well over a week, before Walt took over, so it can't be blamed on Walt or the people attempting to make a back up. I have very little respect for the people who are gobbling up bandwidth and server connections attempting a unilateral back up, and disrupting the normal operations of the board. I do hope the creators and story writers have copies of all their work (I'll be saving off copies of my few things), but I really don't think anyone else has the "right" or "responsibility" to "back up the board."  - miros1


See, no good deed goes unpunished.

DecoraChroi you are missing the little nemo background!! Its a creepy likeness, but you done good.

Brilliant Devilfish....I needed the recap since I've been asleep!

lolz Sherry!


Pirates are such a rowdy bunch!

Who made that comment about blowing things up - was it walt?

Im curious to know if Walt even has a clue as to whats going on or if he is yet to discover the chaos? I doubt he knows there are such lovely avatars of him and a wonderful fanclub, + over 100 pages of forum thread.

I leave the computer for a few hours and theres like a billion new posts.

Walt seriously creeps me out. I was actually having some sympathy for the poor guy...all he did was get duped by K&E to buy the website and at least he was honest about wanting to make changes and a profit. But after seeing those pics, I feel a little dirty.

Can't wash walt from my eyes!!!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone actually gotten on the site in a while? For me its been unavailable for many hours.

Its so much easier to jump to conclusions I find. Seriously there is enough confusion over the whole situation without fake Walts running around making things more confounding.

I actually woke my cat from laughing so hard, but I could tell it was a joke strait off. The probable truth is that Walt made his ridiculous announcement thinking the community would be all happy about the upcoming changes and then he went off for the holiday. I bet he has no idea that the site has exploded and everyone has jumped ship.

Thanks for your suggestion I'll check that site out. As for the exchange- When I registered my game during installation it crashed the pc. When I try to log onto the exchange it tells me I need to register, but when I register it states that my reg # is already in use! I have written to EA about 3 times on this issue and they never respond. If I could I would upload everything there, especially to piss off those paysite owners!

I do a lot of building and have been using custom content from all sorts of places and that includes paysites (not like I paid for it though). I have no doubt that if I share them at the few regular sites I visit that I will get bitched at for this ridiculous copyright thing.  So, anyone know of a place that doesnt harass you over these 'rules'?

Yeah, I stumbled upon that site recently looking for some mens clothes. Why is there no decent clothing for men in the game? In any case the site blatantly has a shopping cart set up and I am willing to bet that many of the "items" for sale are recolors and not original meshes. Which even if the meshes are new still seems blatantly obvious to be breaking EA copyright! I dont understand why they allow this chaos to continue. What happened to a friendly sharing community?

Now that I know that bandwith isn't as expensive as I thought I'll refrain from stating (like I've been doing for some time) that its ok to charge a minimal fee for running a site. All sites should be donation only. If you dont get enough donations to keep the site going, then as a webmaster you have the choice to pay out of the pocket and generously share with others or take the site down. These paysites act like they are being forced to keep the site online, or perhaps they are greedy and egocentric about their work?

As for godaddy, I haven't used them as a host, but I've been getting my domain names from them for years with no problem.