Private soc forums

I'm looking for ways to make soc forums/ website independant of a single "owner" . Our soc website had to close when the owner lost interest in entropia, and our subforum on EF fell into disuse partly because both the mods became inactive, so it was no longer possible for new members to sign up.

Currently we have a forum hosted by freebb3.com. Not ideal, but, crucially it means the forum won't be lost if the owner loses interest/ gets struck by lightning/ loses his internet connection/ whatever; partly because there are no fees to pay; partly because, we have found that an admin, appointed by the "owner" has exactly the same powers that the owner has (including the power to appoint other admins), so , as long as we have two active admins, there's no problem if one goes AWOL

Besides , I'm a fricking anarchist. It cuts across the grain to invest all that power in any given individual, even if that individual is me! lol

I wonder if you guys can come up with any creative solutions?


jay :)

Thank you. Right now I am just looking into the options. There is some talk in my Soc about starting our own website again. If it turns out that others are prepared to put some work into this (i.e. not leaving everything to me!) then we might run with this idea, but there is still this ownership issue to deal with.

Now, I'm wondering if you- or anyone- could come up with some kind of group ownership deal, where it really doesn't matter which member of that group pays the fees so long as they get paid? And/or where the group could elect a new "owner", so to speak, in the event of the original vanishing (our Soc has had such problems with vanishing leaders, that i really don;t trust anyone- self included- not to follow suit! )

jay :)

Hi again :)

I was actually thinking about the following offer:

It's just an idea atm. But i was thinking that other Socs might also appreciate if the ownership problem could be somehow resolved. It's pretty daft if a whole group has to up sticks and move on, becuse one crucial member no longer comes online, but that's all to often the case.

jay :)