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So here's what has been going on

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diamondlil
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Post by diamondlil » Thu August 28th, 2008, 8:18 pm

[quote=""Ash""]Be careful with making dues. Donations, great, but once they are no longer voluntary, the site suddenly looses steam and members. I've seen that happen on two forums I've been on. I prefer ads over dues, FWIW, tho I would gladly make a donation if that would help[/quote]


Making dues is not one of the options that we are discussing. This is a place to have fun and we don't want to have any kind of compulsion at all about anything!

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Post by Divia » Thu August 28th, 2008, 8:55 pm

I'm glad to hear that :) I'll gladly donate what I can, but dues are hard for some people.
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Margaret
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Post by Margaret » Wed September 3rd, 2008, 5:00 am

I'll add my thanks to everyone else's. I was awfully impressed that you and the moderators were able to get this new site up and running so quickly, Marg. If you had already been mulling over the possibility, that helps explain how you were able to do it. Thank goodness! I'm so, so, so glad the moderators now have full control of the site. With a site like this, it's important that the people who own and operate it genuinely love historical fiction and care that the site functions properly. It's sad to lose all the old posts, but it makes so much difference to have the active moderators in full control, so in the end, I think we are all much better off.
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Spitfire
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Post by Spitfire » Wed September 3rd, 2008, 4:16 pm

Thanks for filling us in on what happened. I am so happy to be back with you all. It felt awful to be cut off without any explanation or directions to find anybody. So glad to be back!! :D
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Post by Dani » Fri September 5th, 2008, 1:33 pm

Marg thansk for the explianation i had just found the old one and i had spent many hours reading the post before it dissapaeread however i am glad that you and the mods got this up and running I no longer feel "lost"

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Post by Ash » Fri September 5th, 2008, 2:15 pm

[quote=""diamondlil""]Making dues is not one of the options that we are discussing. This is a place to have fun and we don't want to have any kind of compulsion at all about anything![/quote]

Very glad to hear that!

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MLE (Emily Cotton)
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Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
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banned from the old forum

Post by MLE (Emily Cotton) » Fri September 5th, 2008, 3:58 pm

well, they finally banned me from the old forum. I popped in this AM to tell eigon and andromeda where we were, no go. EC is still posting, tho.

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Post by Misfit » Fri September 5th, 2008, 4:04 pm

I saw your post and I posted two as well as did EC one. All deleted now. Guess I'll mosey over and see if I'm banned.

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Post by Misfit » Fri September 5th, 2008, 4:05 pm

I'm history. How about you EC? I did get a PM off to Andromeda Organa and Whisper who were online today. Eigon's already here now.

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Post by EC2 » Fri September 5th, 2008, 4:14 pm

[quote=""Misfit""]I'm history. How about you EC? I did get a PM off to Andromeda Organa and Whisper who were online today. Eigon's already here now.[/quote]

Just PM'd Eigon (glad you're here!) and Andromeda and Stevent. Haven't tried out the post board since my Rosamund Clifford post - which has disappeared!
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For never will cowards fall down there.'

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