An apology is in order... Community Forums - p1

An apology is in order...

Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:02 pm

Forum Host

A number of years ago, the seed of an idea was planted for this forum. It was watered, nurtured, and encouraged to grow. Grow, it did! It flourished enough to take on a forum of its own. The two original co-hosts continued to water and nurture the idea, pulling weeds and planting more seeds as needed. Volunteer seedlings began to pop up all over the place. It was a beautiful garden to peruse and play in.

But, as sometimes happens in life, storm clouds rolled in...and other things took priority in the lives of the co-hosts. Issues that demanded attention in no uncertain terms. Some of the hosts had to bow out due to life circumstances. It didn't matter to the forum what the issues were...the end result was that the garden slowly began to waiver and wilt due to negligence on the part of the forum hosts. Site members, some new...some long-time members, came in to peruse the garden...only to find overgrown weeds and the rattling skeletons of dead bracken. Nothing new had been planted in a long, long time...and the forum was the worse for it.

One day, one of the original hosts came back and saw the sorry state of the garden. She had put so many hours into making it a thing of beauty...and now it was sadly overgrown and desperately in need of trimming, nurturing and watering. She had been back a few times to see if she could do anything...but it just seemed so very overwhelming at times. Til the day she looked at it, and just simply couldn't stand it anymore. She knew the garden deserved better treatment than it had been getting. It wasn't going to be an overnight job, but it needed to be done.

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.................................................(and the new beginning)
An apology is in order to all EF/S participants. Life interrupted my moderating chores in really nasty ways over the last few years. It doesn't matter what or why...all that matters at the moment is that the forum has been neglected for far too long. I will try to be around here more often, and try to get things going. I can't promise anything at the moment...but I'm trying. Please accept my most profuse apologies for neglecting my chores, and know that I'm trying to fix it. Thank you for your time, support and understanding.

UC86