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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.

[mjda]

My point was simply that Bob cannot be solely to blame, and the "he left us with nothing" excuse is simply not true. That server access worked for a good year after Bob had disappeared and still nothing was done with it. The guys who had it, myself included, simply wasted the opportunity to use it while they had it.

Also, even without access to the server itself, there have always been people with other access to make changes to the forum.

The virus was a bad deal, I'll give you that one, but all of this site's traffic didn't leave because of a virus. Heck, a lot of people would have never even known about it had they not seen the threads about it.

The real problem, and it was a problem even when Bob was here is that there are too many "squatters" and talkers on the team, and not enough doers. I'm certainly not talking about you there either, Dwight, because I know you personally would do whatever you had the authority to do.

The fact is, though, that it is just disheartening to those who do actually do things on the team to look around and see a lot of other people who could be doing the same things doing nothing. I think that caused a lot of the team to start looking at this site more like a job, instead of like a place to relax. Then, it just escalated from there.

There really is no single person, or specific group of people, who can be blamed for the decline of activity. It's really just a combination of a lot of things.

[northicehero99]

There really is no single person, or specific group of people, who can be blamed for the decline of activity. It's really just a combination of a lot of things.

This is correct, but what gets annoying is that lots of people and posts in this topic seem to put all of the blame on the CZT here as the reason for the decline, which as we all know is nowhere near the reality of the situation. That being said it is time to move on from Bob and make this site fun and the "community" it once was.