TM2 Dinobot wrote:Ideas, huh?
Okay. We buy the site. Ourselves. We, the members, get enought together to but the server space for the next 1+ years, just like it's doing now. We have a fundraiser. It's not mandentory to donate, but it's expected of you. We have a contest. If you donat, you're entered into a drawing for custom toys. Advertise. Get the frelling name out there. There are a ton of customizing sites out there. Most people likes Transformers, or at least seeing other's hard work. There are also a bunch of fameous customizers. How bout inviting them over for a custom trade or something. RTM has a custom con bi-yearly. How about something like that? Elect new staff. We need it. Experienced people who can step up and do stuff that needs to be done without being asked.
You seem to think I'm fighting change. I'm not. I'm fighting rushing head long into a situation without evaluating all your options. I think there are many other things we can do rather then commit to something without seeing other stuff first.
Also, you're right. One way or the other, the TT we knew is gone.
I'm sorry man but i have to say, you're wrong.
TT is not gone. Won't be gone anytime soon and truth be told if I can have it my way it'll never be gone.
You think I'm rushing headlong?...Dude, i've been toying with ideas to do something of this caliber for years now and weighing each possible outcome. For years I have been on and off in talks with Tony at TFW about something like this but in the end it always came around to where he says to me, "I'd love to do this but the staff has concerns...We need this and this and..."
If I went that route would that have been ok?
He even said, "We do this I will need to own the name and everything with it"
Ok, maybe NOT those exact words but close to it.
Ryan on the other hand doesn't want a Monopoly. He just rather win at it. Do you have to own something to have pride for it? NO...so in that case I thought to myself Tony doesn't get the point, and the heart would then be taken out of it.
I thought about giving it to Dev or someone else. I BUILT this from the ground up, but like a real community it needed others to help it grow. I birthed it...I won't just "LET IT GO"
Specially to numerouse fans that have interest in it.
Each have their own agenda. Can you make a choice from that. In the end you want to protect YOUR baby at all costs. It's your responceability.Noone elses.
Can you choose from the numerouse hands that are holding out for it to take your place? NO.
But at the same time you can't just take the child away from it's community.
That's what I love about the internet. Over the years I have had a blast. Troubles now or no, I look back and I cannot say i've been cheeted.
And why do you guys keep coming back??
Is it the content?
Most places have their own version of it so what make you different?
It's the heart. I'm not taking it away, I'm just taking it with me. It's my right as the father isn't it? Would you be able to easily make those choices above?
And not only do you mention the fact of handing it off to one hand and choose but multipal??
You say I haven't thought things out and that it's rushed. It's not. I hade my freeservers account back in the day and did it all myself. Easy set up but not much to look at.
Then Pepie set me up with a place I can call my home. I INVITED you all in. It's not private. Anyone can be here. Just don't be a **** in my home and all will always be welcome.
See True transtopians see that. They understand.
Home is where you make it and you make your home where your heart is.
Just because i change the suit doesn't mean I don't like it anymore. It's just time for a change.
You want to contribute? Then by all means do so. Noone is stoping you and in fact if you have been reading all that I have written correctly I'm pleading for it.
Go or stay? Stay or move?
You got a choice and so do I.
And good or ill they are my choices.
But just like a move in the real world, you don't like it you can always move back or somewhere else.
Ryan gave me that option.
He gets it.
TFM