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Guaranos:

--- Quote from: shmokes on May 13, 2008, 08:31:18 pm ---I think it is his responsibility to do so.  Obviously not a legal responsibility . . . but he has an ethical responsibility to the community to which he is a member, just like you have a responsibility to call the police if you see someone breaking into your neighbor's house.  It's just the right thing to do. 

He appears to just be on a power trip.  From the sound of it (having only read the OP) he could easily have just divorced himself of the thing and turned it over to someone who cared.  But he appears to be deriving satisfaction out of the fact that he has the power to hurt people.  That's lame, and everybody has a responsibility to avoid hurting others.  An Olympic swimmer can legally sit by a swimming pool and smoke a cigarette while watching a child drown, so long as he didn't cause the kid to fall in the pool.  That doesn't mean that he has no responsibility to help the kid.  It just means he has no legal duty to help him.  Those are two different things.

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Dude, it's a website.  It's not a kid's life in danger, it's not a crime in progress, and nobody's life is going to be significantly impacted by the disappearance of a website.  If the guy wants to shut down his website, which he presumably pays the bandwidth bills for and spends his time maintaining, he has no ethical obligation to do otherwise.

So a few internet geeks won't be able to read about their TV show rumors.  Who cares?  They might whine about it for a week or two, but they'll get over it.  They'll just move on to the next website, or maybe take a break, look around the room, and realize that they have real people in their house that they can talk to about their TV show.  If they don't get over it, then they have issues that they need to work out on their own or with the help of a professional.

I mean, as much as I like this website, if it closed tomorrow I'd thank Saint for his time and move on.  I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of people on here would do the same.

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: Guaranos on May 14, 2008, 07:09:55 am ---I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of people on here would do the same.

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Thanks -- I needed that laugh this morning !

 :cheers:

shardian:
heh, I realize the guy owned the site, payed the bills, etc. He could have definitely handed over the whole operation - could have even sold it for a profit. That place was a fully cross referenced encyclopedia of the show. I wouldn't be surprised if the creators of the show used it for a reference. Just to throw something like that away is crazy.

saint:
Here's my perspective on this issue as it regards BYOAC. I created, run, and pay for this site. However, the evolution of this site to the community and resource it is today is almost entirely due to the efforts of the users who frequent and contribute to it. I feel an obligation to them to make sure this resource doesn't disappear if I am no longer able or willing to continue to oversee it. If that happens, I will follow the lead of Kevin of Retroblast and Kelsey of OscarControls. I'll give at least a couple of folks a DVD (or some other media actually as we're hitting 13 gigs here now) of the entire site, forum, wiki, and mirrors, and turn over operation of the site to whomever the likely interested candidate is at the time. Ideally someone would mirror the original (like we do for the original Retroblast http://retroblast.arcadecontrols.com/ and OscarControls http://mirrors.arcadecontrols.com/OscarControls/) for posterity while the new owner took the site in whatever direction they thought was appropriate (as they've done with the new RetroBlast! http://www.retroblast.com/).  Kind of an open-source approach.

CheffoJeffo:
How much of the 13Gigs does Post Hell take up ?

 ;D

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