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Originally Posted by tore
Sure, I'm not planning to jump ship straight away, but I don't exactly feel like I owe the administration anything. Me and many others like yourself have added real worth to this site by working here for free, by writing guides and making content. You know it's a lot of work. Never once have I seen any appreciation from administration. All I feel like I've seen from them is a fair share of rejection and a lack of interest and respect.
I care about the community. Not the design of this forum or the domain name. If this community moved to a different place, perhaps that would be better for all of us .. except administration who would have a dead site on their hands, but do we really owe them anything?
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Well, you kinda say it all right here. We care about the community. It's why we're here. We're not here for the appreciation and respect of the administration. What's more, we can survive pretty well without it... as we have thus far.
I think the important thing that separates us from any other place on the web is this exact value in all of us and how we're still able to carve out a great place on the internet with so little to work with.
I don't feel like we owe anything to MB as a company either, but I do think we're all in a position to extend our finer qualities to a wider audience here at MB. We get new users every day, some good, some bad, because of what this website is and where it stands on the internet. We can choose to abandon that for more control of our site that we don't need in order to maintain what we are, or we can choose to stay with what little that we do have and capitalize on the success of a website that is already in a position to keep our community alive and breathing.