Sound good--give me a sec OK? LOL (slow pc)
Okay, so I myself was able to get in on the site for a short time. I am going to copy and paste part of what I found here, so you can see Walt's plans for this site. Since no one has been able to get into the site, I have brought the info to you all here!
Dude thinks he should make money off of this site! (Gee, where was OUR paycheck for all OUR hard work? I never saw a dime, never even Asked for a dime, for all that I did for that site! And that's just the creative end-what about all those who have to help run the site with all it's tech parts?!!!
This posting is so you would see what the questions and the answers were, not so to poke fun at those who asked, okay? These are questions we all had, and it's very hard to be diplomatic about it...
This is the link this posting came from.
http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=100208 And if I could stay online long enough, I would request ALL my work be removed from that site too!!!!
Q&A about the future of the InSIM websites
Walt
Gothplague made an excellent suggestion that I start a dialogue with the moderators, super-moderators, and admins about the current crisis to give each of you the chance to ask questions, share your views, etc.
Let me start by saying that I'm well-aware of the chaos that has been created and am sincerely interested in doing what I can to help calm things. Gothplague felt that if I made myself available to this group to try to answer your questions and concerns, it could give you the tools you need to do what you can to help calm the community's fears.
I also want to let everyone know that I am working on a statement that I plan to release to the community tomorrow, although I'm not yet ready to discuss all that I'm planning to put into that statement. I'm hoping to use that statement to calm some fears.
Please feel free to post your concerns, and I'll be checking back periodically throughout the day.
Walt is online now
gothplague
thankyou for setting this up walt
Walt
You're quite welcome.
gothplague
well i'll get the ball rolling;
* the server issues are needing to be fixed
* the staff both here and on the adult forum are very worried about the future of the sites and their staff posions. takeovers almost always include staff turnovers and that has us concerned.
* the future of the site as a free site is very much a concern too.
* will the staff be able to continue to moderate the forum, will you be a silent owner or do we have to ask for many tasks to be done.
these are but a few of our worries.
you see, this forum has been a growing community for many years and many people have invested alot of their time and energy here. it is like a second home. and we are very passionate as to what may happen to our 'home'
Walt
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well i'll get the ball rolling;
* the server issues are needing to be fixed
* the staff both here and on the adult forum are very worried about the future of the sites and their staff posions. takeovers almost always include staff turnovers and that has us concerned.
* the future of the site as a free site is very much a concern too.
* will the staff be able to continue to moderate the forum, will you be a silent owner or do we have to ask for many tasks to be done.
these are but a few of our worries.
you see, this forum has been a growing community for many years and many people have invested alot of their time and energy here. it is like a second home. and we are very passionate as to what may happen to our 'home'
Very understandable. Let me try to put your minds at ease as much as I can.
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* the server issues are needing to be fixed
I've got a professional server team looking at the server issues. I'm also preparing to order a new, larger server because the current server is under-powered. Because of all the concerns that users have raised in their comments, the server will only be four processors rather than eight processors, but it still should remove most (hopefully all) of the issues.
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Originally Posted by gothplague View Post
well i'll get the ball rolling;
* the staff both here and on the adult forum are very worried about the future of the sites and their staff posions. takeovers almost always include staff turnovers and that has us concerned.
My intention is to keep the current staff in place. I have no plans to replace anyone. My sincerest desire is to keep the site on the same overall track it has always been on, and I'm hoping that the staff will all want to stay. Rest assured...I do not want to replace you if I don't have to!
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well i'll get the ball rolling;
* the future of the site as a free site is very much a concern too.
I fully intend to keep the site a free site. I regret the way I presented and explained my plans earlier, because it caused so much confusion and consternation. Let me see if I can make those plans plain, and you can let me know if I've confused the issue in any way.
Really, I'm not planning any changes in the way the site's forums, downloads, etc. are offered. The only proposal I was trying to make was to go from a donation-drive approach to fundraising toward a monthly donation approach via PayPal's automated subscription system. I'm pretty sure the big problem this idea has caused in the minds of so many is the word "subscription." This is actually PayPal's term, and I was just using their term. A "subscription" as they mean it is nothing more or less than any regularly scheduled transfer of funds. Thus, if someone wants to make a donation on a regular basis, it could be scheduled as a donation subscription that automatically draws from their PayPal account and sends the funds once each month.
Now, let me clarify the other side of the picture that seems to be causing so much frustration, consternation, etc. By "subscription" I do NOT mean that people will have to pay a monthly fee in order to access some select part of the website. Regrettably, in my original email to the super-mods in which I announced the change in management, I posed the idea of possibly doing some sort of subscription-based access for the insimadult site. This idea was never intended for the insimenator site, and it was only a floating of an idea. My hope was to get feedback from super-mods about it, because I wasn't sure how it would be received by the users. What happened instead is that the word got out to the user base and all hell broke loose.
Therefore, I have since backed off that idea entirely. Not even insimadult is going to get such a system. Neither site is. I'm not sure how much more clear I can make this, but if it isn't clear, please let me know. Mandatory subscriptions of any kind for any purpose are now off the drawing board, permanently.
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* will the staff be able to continue to moderate the forum, will you be a silent owner or do we have to ask for many tasks to be done.
Absolutely yes, the staff will continue to moderate the forum. That's precisely what I want to happen. I want YOU GUYS to be in control of the day to day functioning of the boards. In fact, I'm counting on you all to exercise your good judgment at all times in this regard. I get the impression that Kathy was rather heavy-handed in the way she handled the staff. I'm quite the opposite. I want to delegate as much power and authority as I possibly can to you, the staff.
The only time I would step in to overrule in some case is if it was brought to my attention that a particular moderator's decisions were causing problems for the site or if the staff were requesting a new overall rule of some kind. My sense is that this site is well-enough developed that you guys already have all the necessary rules and principles in place and that I don't need to interfere in any way.
Let me see if I can summarize all this in a helpful way. I really don't want to change the site's essential nature. After this crisis is weathered, I want (from time to time) to propose to you the mods and super-mods (and through you to the users) additional features that can be added to enhance the site. In other words, I want to make the site even more attractive than it already is to users, to keep them coming back more often. My purpose was never to take away what makes the site so successful in the first place.
I also want to take a moment to apologize to you, the mods and super-mods, for not taking more time to clue you guys in on what was happening. I was left adrift by the fact that Kathy and Eric had said nothing to anyone, so I was trying to feel my way through. I made the mistake of only giving the super-mods one day to get back to me about the message I had sent, and I didn't even include the regular moderators at all. Big mistake on my part! So please accept my apologies to all of you. You deserve better communications from me than that.