All this talk of rum on top of all this drama....wheres my Morgan's Spiced?  Am I allowed to swear here?  Because my F&*c$^ng husband has polished off MY rum!  Anybody sharing?  Enchantress all the posts say yes, he has.  But I haven't been able to get in today and I've been trying on and off for 12 hours now.

DeathtoWalt is right.  A lot of the adult mods and hacks were being moved to insim adult.  I hope a new version of the adult site can be made, because the creators of these items seemed to feel at home on the site.

Well that's nice Quorneater.  It's great that you have your priorities sorted.  However you obviously don't have a year's work on the site that you are maybe going to lose.  I will continue to be grateful to Pes for his efforts on behalf of those of us who have something to lose. 

But seeing as we have chocolate mentioned in a recent post here is a cautionary tale of pirates.  A pirate crew boarded a ship sailing from the New World to Spain and were angered to find the hold full of sheep droppings rather than treasure, so they burned it.  Turned out those sheep droppings were cocoa pods worth their weight in silver.  A silly story but I think it makes a point.  Don't be quick to burn until you are sure you have all the booty.  Argue the value after you have it.  Any good pirate should know that.

I went to work on Thursday and came home to find all hell had broken loose around the Insiminator sites and this morning I am in here still trying to catch up on everyhting thats happened.  I work long shifts over the weekend.  

From what i can gather from the posts Pescado is trying to backup/rescue the site contents.  Thats really great and very kind.  Especially, Neriana, as some of us on the site have recently been affected by a virus, lost stuff and have been trying to copy back from the site before all this happened.  

And yeah you can all scoff and laugh at me for not having had good enough backups but as a someone who has only begun using online sites/downloads/posting in the last year I am a learning as I go, usually after something has gone wrong and I have to make sure it does not happen again.

Personally I was horrified at the sites being sold, especially the way it was handled.  I know Kathy and Eric have real life problems and they have my sympathy for everything that they have gone through and are still dealing with.  Some of those issues are heartbreaking.

However over the year that i have been a member of the ISA community I have, as someone pointed out, seen either of them in the site rarely and usually only to ask for money or to rant at people.  They have, in my limited experience, shown very little consideration for the problems of the people who run their site, the mods, supermods and administrators. Many of them have serious RL issues too. The way they have handled this sale without a word to any of the people who do all the work for them has done nothing to imporove my opinion of them.  To my mind they have expected the sympathy for everything that they go through yet show little compassion for anyone elses.

I have also witnessed the lack of support they have given the people that make the site work for them.  They and Walt should remember that although the term is 'staff' nobody was paying Odessa or Paden, Sparks or Hardwaretoad, GP, Beos or any of the many other hard working folks that ran this site for them.  And while the problems they have that I know about do know about do make me sympathetic to their RL issues I can't say i have ever liked what I have seen of them and their actions here come as no big surprise to me.

Also, looking at the figures, if the site was $500 dollars to host per month, how come the site was always '$500 ($600,$750 dollars whatever) behind in monsy for 'the servers alone' whjen there were a lot of us making regular donations?  Who did they lie to?  Us or Walt?  In spite iof the speculations i have seen in this thread I guess none of us are sure.  probably a bit of both.

I have no real idea of the simworld politics, why this person working with that person is odd or surprising.  But from what I have read in this thead, if I am not missing some ulterior motives, i find it heartening that people seem to be working together.

At the risk of seeming a wimp though, I don't think the site should be burned.  That does seem immoral.  And it might be more fun for Walt to be standing there waiting for the sound of ringing tills and hearing instead the wind blowing tumbleweed around while all the people he thought would be giving him money are off playing elsewhere.