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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
hand over? no, not going to happen.
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If you're not interested in managing and keeping an eye on a smaller forum, what's the harm in handing it over to someone new? Halx handed it over to you, you can hand it to someone else and so on. I don't think anyone ever expected you'd run the site until the end of time. Anyway, the community exists in whatever form (or forum) it takes. Why do you think ending the site is better than allowing it to continue on should it continue to lean down?
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
It's going to evolve or it dies. I didn't post this without thinking this through. Why let it become like plastic.com that used to be a flurry of discussion to only now being barely a new thread a week and only a handful of responses? It's a pathetic shell of what it once was, I don't want TFP to suffer that same fate. I'd rather pull the plug myself than let it wither.
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TFP is unique and has intrinsic value even as a collection of thoughts, let alone as a community brought together by common interests. If you're starting to resent what TFP is becoming, so be it, but don't punish those who have stayed and continue to contribute.
By the way, TFP is the creation of the people who have made it interesting or great. Whatever TFP is belongs (belongs in the philosophical sense, not the legal or physical sense) just as much to Charlatan and MSD and Mal and Snowy and Baraka and Cromp and roach and phil and WK and SMeth and Rat and Ustwo and thousands and thousands of others as it does you. What happens to the collected thoughts of tens of thousands of authors when you decide the forum isn't big or busy enough anymore? Does the hard drive go into a drawer? Do we lose forever the horizontal vagina and mass media mind control and our most memorable posts and my insane 9/1 conspiracy theories?