I was cleaning out my “bookmarks” and before I canned hers, I clicked on it to see what would happen.
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Very sad. I often wonder what happened to Barbara E. I have not heard anything from her, of late. I am so thankful that this blog exists. It is so hard to find anywhere else on the net worth visiting regularly. R.I.P. Barbara E ‘s board.
It looks as if barbaraehrenreich.com got remodeled when her latest book came out (earlier this year), and I guess the forum had to go….
This is fairly common, to snuff a board.
I remember when the HotJobs people did it — we had a good group going and then when I tried to come back to it maybe 3 years later….’twas gone.
That’s life in the big internet, I guess.
I wonder where Haxciz Gar went….haha, remember him/ her? that was the “handle” of one of the spambots.
There are a few I miss who didn’t end up here. One of my faves was Wordsmithy who was also on another board I went to often called Monster. I keep in touch with several from there on Facebook but many more disappeared. Message board disappear often, sometimes it’s a good thing. I used to post on a message board devoted to a popular band and the flaming there was horrible. The group pulled it because of it.
I liked the old HotJobs board and that too, was eliminated, a real long time ago.
It’s just one of those things. Management decides not to keep the board and they take it down.
I remember what a pain that old Monster board used to be — it did not post in real time; a mod had to read all the posts before they were approved and published.
Yeah that sucked. When they did allow open moderation many of the trolls started flame wars so they went back to modding.
The chat room was even worse.