Craig McGregor just replied on Rerolled. THIS IS GREAT

Harshaw said:

Truthfully, other than nostalgia, are all the forum posts worth that money? I figure the community in general is worth more than a shitload of "Fuck you! No, Fuck you!" posts. I understand the sentimentality behind it all though, but sometimes you just gotta move on.

Especially with all the work that a_skeleton_03 has gone through and everyone moving and getting acclimated to a better forum.

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I'd mainly be saddened by all the knowledge that would be lost in the cooking thread. I visited it frequently to hone my skills.

Harshaw said:

Truthfully, other than nostalgia, are all the forum posts worth that money? I figure the community in general is worth more than a shitload of "Fuck you! No, Fuck you!" posts. I understand the sentimentality behind it all though, but sometimes you just gotta move on.

Especially with all the work that a_skeleton_03 has gone through and everyone moving and getting acclimated to a better forum.

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IMHO, there's a lot of educational and entertainment value in looking back at very old posts concerning politics and world events. I frequently look back at shit posted in 2012.

I am pretty sure if he would have known if Rerolled wasn't directly tied to JunkiesNation and was it's own thing that he would have never bought it. I am pretty sure he was banking on using the forum to draw in more people and add to the clickbait revenue. I have no reason to be pissed off at Craig.

Harshaw said:

Truthfully, other than nostalgia, are all the forum posts worth that money? I figure the community in general is worth more than a shitload of "Fuck you! No, Fuck you!" posts. I understand the sentimentality behind it all though, but sometimes you just gotta move on.

Especially with all the work that a_skeleton_03 has gone through and everyone moving and getting acclimated to a better forum.

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I agree that a_skeleton_03 should definitely captain the ship going forward. Hes got mad forum making skillz and has been around forever. I would never want to give up the work he has done. But if we could pick up the old site dirt cheap, merge it into this forum, redirect rerolled here, it would be awesome.

i dunno about these things so forgive my ignorance. do webmasters or whomever have some kind of monitor that tells them that "holy shit, traffic on one of my sites just went from high to almost nil in 2 days"?

a_skeleton_03 said:

I posted and PM'ed him that I would love to talk price for the domain name and database dump.

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Good. Im sure we could do a fundraiser if the price is right. It is important that we try to get control over our past if we can, at least to me

Hekotat said:

I'd mainly be saddened by all the knowledge that would be lost in the cooking thread. I visited it frequently to hone my skills.

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Oh I get that there was some stuff that should be saved.. Especially the stuff for Ms. Gravy. Just also saying there is a lot of nonsense too. I'd rather just have threads cherry picked out to keep.

Also I have close to no sentimentality in me, so that colors my opinion.

a_skeleton_03 said:

I posted and PM'ed him that I would love to talk price for the domain name and database dump.

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See how much it would cost to have him through Draegan in as well so we can burn his fedora wearing ass on a sacrificial RRR altar.

Edit: Shit I just realized we are RRR. Grand master dragon RRR members represent!

Due diligence. He should look into it.

Snag it before Tyen does.

Chukzombi said:

i dunno about these things so forgive my ignorance. do webmasters or whomever have some kind of monitor that tells them that "holy shit, traffic on one of my sites just went from high to almost nil in 2 days"?

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Yes, the boards have tools, then you've got things like Google Analytics, as well as simple things like bandwidth usage.

I have no reason to believe Craig is being dishonest. They basically bought the site purely on analytics and a description of what it was, and it doesn't surprise me that they didn't delve deeper for a measly 3K. Now that they've discovered that it has NSFW content, they don't want to change it since it's obvious that would cause an exodus, and since that is now already happening you get the understandable statement that the site will be turned into something else if everyone bails. Since it is obvious that it's already happening, he threw in the "buy it for a loss offer". Everything he wrote made sense in the context of business and minimizing loss for what was obviously a poorly thought out purchase on their part.

In any case, it is inevitable that no matter what, the existence of two sites will lead to something that is less than the sum of their whole. It is obvious that there are many that do not wish to move, and some that feel distressed over the whole fiasco that they're willing to call it quits. The reality is that rerolled alone barely had enough traffic/posts in its final months to sustain it due to the SJW modding, so my worry is that this break could result in two sites with insufficient amount of traffic. Clearly the best solution for success here is to get our hands on rerolled and keep as many members as possible.

kegkilla said:

that would be an ideal situation but it's going to depend on the price tag. we can't in good conscious expect a_skeleton_03 or anyone else to put up thousands of dollars to save some old posts and a domain name that isn't all that great.

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Well, considering how much Screenshots alone could impact the reputation (such as it is) of his network I would be suprised if he would not sell it for a song and a dance. A lot of the stuff on the old boards could cause an embarrassment for the owners thread by thread.

(And yes, I understand that all they really care about is getting hits and ad-money, but still).