Ace wrote:
On 5 Feb 2004 06:14:39 -0800, (David Off) wrote:


The Ski Club of GB has decided to close its chatroom to the outside
world. The website claims the change was made today to preserve a
fantastic resource that contains "extremely valuable information about
resorts, ski schools, websites, equipment, accommodation, and a lot of
general chit"

Although it seems the real reason was a lame-ass Microsoft based user
interface that let imposters register the same usernames as existing
members and then post insulting messages.

I'm sure you will join me in welcoming any Ski Club chat refugees that
wind up here.


Well it was particularly unusable, it has to be said. But it was
generating an impressive amount of traffic, nonetheless.


Yes, it is a shame that some people had to abuse the forum and some of
the members. I realise that the SC and its members fund the site and
the SC politburo can do as it damn well pleases but I think it was a bit
precipitous to just close things like that. There are lots of solutions
if funding is the real problem, such as google ads.

The 60K + posts (which, as you say, is a very impressive figure) were
not all generated by SC members. It is a bit like getting people to
contribute to an open source software project, then closing it and
selling their efforts.

Anyway I hope the remaining members keep things active.

David