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[chopinalex]

Where is Bob? When I was active from 07-09 or so he owned this site and was actively on. I dont see him anywhere. Did he sell this site to someone? Is he ok? Is he selling girl scout cookies? Can someone tell me where he is? I like his posts and insight on the hobby. Just curious.

[urbanmonk]

Agreed it was a combination of things, some that have been noted and others that haven't, and really a mute point anyway at this point. A lot of it was that this site was Bob's baby and we didn't have his permission at first to make changes as we saw fit, be it in advertising or other changes that could have helped potentially (one will never know). It would have helped if we knew why he was gone and if he was coming back and when, as we all thought it was short-term and obviously as it has been over 2 years that was a pipe dream.

When Brian stepped down we lost some of the Balance in management (not that anything wrong with anyone, just he balanced things here far as the Team went (and really it works better to have extremes in point of view for making decisions as you can find a middle easier and he was that much of the time), but he had his reasons and it is fully understood). Yes a lot of it was having a large Team while in reality only a handful of us actually doing majority of the work. After a few topics of asking for opinions from the Team, and I get 2 answers for feedback in a week, I just started doing whatever I felt was needed when issues came up (as you can't wait that long on some things), and sure others felt that too when they were trying to do things as a Team yet hard to do w/o opinions on whatever the subject at hand is, as it is easy to develop a "it don't matter as apparently I'm the only one that gives a crud" attitude.

Again really all a mute point at this point anyway. The folks that come here for GB's is major reason folks even come here as can be told by looking at the transaction forums. Used to take me up to an hour a day to keep that area in order, now pretty much non-existent with exception to the GB's. I'm beyond being able to be optimistic anymore far as the site is concerned, and would have stepped down awhile back but Richard wouldn't remove my title. And I don't have access to the things to do it myself, or just remove myself from site as one Mod did, he is doing better w/o it as we talk via Email from time to time, and I'm starting to wonder if I may be in the same boat as he was at this point in time. As you can look at the members that have been on in last 24hrs and up to 40% of them are Bots and Spammers with no posts that haven't been approved for membership, and that list is pages and pages from what I hear, as Bob used to do all the approvals and nobody was enlightened into how he sorted out the chaff from the legit folks in order to make it not an arduous task that once you behind you can't dig your way out.