07-25-2021, 11:52 AM
Hey all, Kerim here.
Very sorry for the long absence, and I'm very grateful for the thoughtfulness you've all expressed about the well-being of this community and how to keep it safe and growing (even if elsewhere).
I've had a harrowing couple of years, personally, and monitoring and managing the site just never got near the top of the list. I'm coming out of it now, but not exactly sure what the future holds. The biggest positive development is that I have left my job and am planning to take a LOT of time off before working again (maybe up to a year?). I am looking forward to a period of much less stress, and getting back to this site is one of the things I have been excited about.
Nonetheless, I completely understand the impetus to relocate, given my neglect, and I'd be happy to help in that effort in any way at all. Just let me know what I can do.
I also am willing and able, going forward, to give this site more attention if folks would prefer to salvage this instead of moving. There are some easy things we could do right away to protect against similar problems in the future. For starters, I'd be very glad to add some of you as moderators here, so that people other than me can activate new accounts, manage threads, and the such.
Also, I'd be open to ideas about the registration process. The spam to actual user ratio is so high that I instituted very tight measures to join up, but I don't think many people (if any) have emailed me directly to join. If you send me user names of folks that you know are actual people who want to participate, I can activate those accounts right now.
Again, my deep apologies for disappearing and not helping the community to thrive. I can spend more time here now, and would love to, but also stand ready to help the group to its next chapter if I can.
Also, my personal email address, should it be useful is KerimJunk at gmail dot com.
Thanks,
Kerim
Very sorry for the long absence, and I'm very grateful for the thoughtfulness you've all expressed about the well-being of this community and how to keep it safe and growing (even if elsewhere).
I've had a harrowing couple of years, personally, and monitoring and managing the site just never got near the top of the list. I'm coming out of it now, but not exactly sure what the future holds. The biggest positive development is that I have left my job and am planning to take a LOT of time off before working again (maybe up to a year?). I am looking forward to a period of much less stress, and getting back to this site is one of the things I have been excited about.
Nonetheless, I completely understand the impetus to relocate, given my neglect, and I'd be happy to help in that effort in any way at all. Just let me know what I can do.
I also am willing and able, going forward, to give this site more attention if folks would prefer to salvage this instead of moving. There are some easy things we could do right away to protect against similar problems in the future. For starters, I'd be very glad to add some of you as moderators here, so that people other than me can activate new accounts, manage threads, and the such.
Also, I'd be open to ideas about the registration process. The spam to actual user ratio is so high that I instituted very tight measures to join up, but I don't think many people (if any) have emailed me directly to join. If you send me user names of folks that you know are actual people who want to participate, I can activate those accounts right now.
Again, my deep apologies for disappearing and not helping the community to thrive. I can spend more time here now, and would love to, but also stand ready to help the group to its next chapter if I can.
Also, my personal email address, should it be useful is KerimJunk at gmail dot com.
Thanks,
Kerim