is it ethical

to maintain a personal forum after the persons in charge of it have long been banned and stopped coming to the forum?

yeah, it's fine.

ok, just wondered.

You can't erase the internet, I tried.


Do you mean maintain as in actively modding or just not deleting said forum?

it sure is...but I would close it and drop it way down to the bottom with the others


stealing the swap box is unethical << and I know that probably not the person you are referring to

Originally Posted by daisymae

Do you mean maintain as in actively modding or just not deleting said forum?

it seemed to me that a "personal forum" would be closed once the person whom it belonged to was no longer a member. deletion would be going a bit far, but i was kind of surprised to see this forum still up and running with 2 appointed mods who are in no way affiliated with the particular forum.

and no, it's certainly nowhere near swap box thievery on the scale of unethicalness.

I guess it depends on when the money paid for the forum runs out...the ban may not be forever.

The mods are here because the person who opened this forum (we shall not mention names ) asked to have it affiliated with RT, so it appears on the same page to get more traffic, and when you do that, you get the mods for that forum on board.

eh, fair enough i suppose.

I dont see a big deal really