The Cellar is closing at the end of the year (sooner, if the new location is stable)

[lumberjim]

It's the same as all my sock puppets.

[monster]

...yours is "password", though

[monster]

I will pray for your soul

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by monster

I will pray for your soul

[Dude111]

Maybe some of you guys can come to mauisun,I am a co-admin there

www.mauisun.org/smf

[monster]

I will pray for your rissole also.

Ramen.

[Diaphone Jim]

OK, this is off on a standard scatter.
I've been here for 13 years and still feel like I haven't been taught the secret handshake.
Before I try to guess what is going on, how about one of the insiders explaining Undertoad's announcement.

[DanaC]

The Cellar hasnt been much joy for UT for a while now - there have been odd fallings out, and the divisiveness of modern politics have made themselves felt - into this already not fun situ a new member arrived (jam) and as I understand it posted a lot of stuff about alternative health including some stuff about Covid that many considered to be part of the large covid misinformation drive that has been hitting much of the interwebz.

Responses to teh new member were not overly welcoming (some suspected a troll) and in response the new member doubled down on their assertions and this further fed the notion that they were a troll or spambot - therefore responses got quite vitriolic.

New member (perhaps understandably) is more interested in fighting their corner and reminding us all that they are in their 80s and taking the forum to task for the amount of swearing, lack of manners, lack of welcome for new members than in addressing the fact that their posting style was spammy and abrasive enough for people to think they might be a spambot (or sock puppet for the member who introduced them).

UT is a decent caring man and it did not sit well with him that a human person got dogpiled on the site by people who suspected trolling - and once it became clear they weren't a spambot nevertheless continued to meet the new member with hostility

This was basically the final straw for UT who had already commented a few times over past year or so that he might not want to continue with the cellar and has at times stepped away as a poster, though continued to host.

It's a mess - but it is probably not entirely unexpected - was probably going to happen at some point and this was just the thing that tipped it

We are currently looking at ways to rehouse the community on a new board for any who wish to keep it going.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by DanaC

The Cellar hasnt been much joy for UT for a while now -

Thanks D for giving it some context.

It's not fair of me to bring up my general beefs. But I should say that the jaminhealth situation was only a small signal of the weariness I have had for a long while. Just doesn't net out fun anymore

I'm pretty sure it is me who has changed. "It's not you, it's me."

And there's this: 30 years is enough, man. Hell, my average stay with an employer is 3 years. There's nothing else I've done for such a long time.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

There's nothing else I've done for such a long time.

Masturbate.

[henry quirk]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Thanks D for giving it some context.

It's not fair of me to bring up my general beefs. But I should say that the jaminhealth situation was only a small signal of the weariness I have had for a long while. Just doesn't net out fun anymore

I'm pretty sure it is me who has changed. "It's not you, it's me."

And there's this: 30 years is enough, man. Hell, my average stay with an employer is 3 years. There's nothing else I've done for such a long time.

as I say: good luck with whatever comes next, toad...

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

And there's this: 30 years is enough, man. Hell, my average stay with an employer is 3 years. There's nothing else I've done for such a long time.

I salute you, sir! There's crap on this series of interconnected tubes that's disappeared, that's less than five years old. Hell, some of it less than two. You've gone far above and beyond any reasonable length of time for a venture like this, and you've done yeoman's work these past decades to keep it going. And that's true regardless of what your reason for shutting things down is.

[limey]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

I salute you, sir! There's crap on this series of interconnected tubes that's disappeared, that's less than five years old. Hell, some of it less than two. You've gone far above and beyond any reasonable length of time for a venture like this, and you've done yeoman's work these past decades to keep it going. And that's true regardless of what your reason for shutting things down is.

Agreed!


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[Dude111]

I think he got mad at Flints outburst cause he didnt say anything of this before

[DanaC]

Yes he has Dude111