Informed Webmaster

Once the main contributors began showing up less often it was quite a different feel.

Roy and I were the remaining Admins, and the Mods who attended the forum regularly, were stopping by less and less. Once that trend became more prevalent, the spammers and those looking to get back-links and selling their junk there became rampant. There wasn't a day that went by near the end that I didn't ban at least a dozen spammers and delete all their junk.

So, the "good" conversations and good contributions decreased, the site was attacked a couple of times and went down each time. I guess the owners figured they were not getting the required traffic and advert click thru's, and it was more hassle to keep it going, so the last time it went down, they didn't even try to restore it.

They said they were looking into the issue, but ultimately it was gone at that point. And, they didn't even say thanks for all the "free labour" work we put in to help keep it going.

And that, as they say, was that. :shrug:

My eyes just glazed over when I got to "phpBB extentions".