We have reached an impasse, and now a wall!

[23:42:48] <@Taryn> oh yeah, it's because you love starting drama
[23:42:50] <@Lili-chan> when did I do that?
[23:42:57] <@Lili-chan> also, stop fucking whining
[23:43:17] <@Taryn> stop fucking picking fights and starting drama at every opportunity

Posted by stag019
That's like asking what do you accomplish from stopping to beat a dead horse? Nothing, you fool, but what do you accomplish while beating it? Also nothing. The benefit from closing the board is that it's no longer necessary to maintain. We don't have to waste portions of our lives (for example KP9000) deleting spambots, or posting posts that are rarely going to be seen.

"We" is bad wording since you're not staff here. If you don't have any faith in this board, that's fine, I'm not forcing anyone to stay.

If it gets to a point where we close down the board, then yes, we will of course leave an archive. But right now that's not what we are aiming for.

Posted by stag019
People often say: "but where will everyone (or alternatively just the ROM hackers) go?" The answer to this is simple. Both Jul and Romhacking.net cater to general ROM hacking. Dislike Romhacking.net paying too much attention to translations? Fix that. Be the person who discusses ROM hacking a lot. Get followers who do the same. Additionally, people liked this board due to just general overall discussion. They have Jul. Not to mention, there are bunch of other AB2/ABXD/whathaveyou boards that I don't really know about because I sorta stopped caring about Acmlm spinoffs after the Jul split. But since I know a lot of people have this "Xkeeper vendetta", I've read that some of these places actually have "I hate Xkeeper" groups or something like that. Yeah, people too immature to like Jul but are too attached to this specific branch of the internet would fit right in there.

Excuse me while I chock on my food here.

Okay, first of all, not everyone here hates Jul, in fact, there are several users who go on both, me being one of them, KP is another I can mention I suppose. Furthermore, proclaiming that Jul is a good place for ROMhacking is not exactly a wise option. Sure, Jul does have a ROMhacking section, but it's not very active. And before you start saying that I should post in it to bring activity, you should know, I am one of the users who do post in that section.

And while ROMhacking.net is nice for many things, Acmlm's board (before the split) was always known for the great community and hacking. It was always (in my opinion) easier to get help and feedback here rather than RH.net.

And as much as I have gone around hearing about it, I have seen very little of this "Xkeeper vendetta" everyone keeps bringing up. I have seen a few users (read: under 10) that have been like that, that but they have mostly been dipshits you don't want to be with anyway. Sure, I have seen a few that just don't want to be around Xk, but they have been mature about it AFAIK.

Posted by stag019
And the final last resort is this brand spanking new thing called OUTSIDE! I understand people often feel as if they'll melt at first, but honestly it's not bad once you get used to it. I promise.

Well, this was kinda pointless to add, don't you think? :/

Posted by stag019
In conclusion, by examining the above post by Liliana, I have proven that by removing the unnecessary resources needed to maintain a significantly dead message board, while still leaving an archive version of it up as a reference to both ROM hackers and internet historians alike, there is everything to gain, and nothing to lose.
— Summer Glau

Since when was Liliana a valid point from which to judge this whole board?

The reason why I have not banned both sides of the drama lama yet is due to me being lazy and the fact that it did get a few not so active users to post valid suggestions in this thread. :/

Also, we are working on things right now to try and make this message board "not dead."

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