If I thought I had the time, I'd take it and add signatures, avatars, background MIDIs, blinking text, and all kinds of retarded features. But working two jobs tends to eliminate that aspect, unfortunately. :)

That's a great idea.

Weird coincidence:

1. Spacefem posts this journal entry.

2. The very next entry on my ЖЖ friendspage is this Achewood cartoon: Roast Beef's I Got Problems website.

What can it mean? Maybe Onstad would buy Adviceinators. If he does, make sure to ask him to add a section for advice on chicken recipes. For real.

Advicenators LLC

No, I'm not kidding.

well, maybe I kinda do, I don't know. not much though.

I saw that you posted it, but perhaps you should have offered to the supporting/paying members first? That, I think, is the place to start - they've already been willing to help out.

Were it not for the astronomical amount of debt I have, I'd be more than willing to be in on this from a financial perspective. As it is, I doubt I can do that.

I'd ideally like to see us create a team of people, where you could maintain involvement, just not have to worry about doing it all yourself. I think the backing really is there.

Going in that direction, if we could find someone to manage the code, this could allow us to create an open source version of the code - that we could use to continue to run the site. The actual site code would not be explicitly open - but the guts would. Much like projects like slashcode have the open version and the production version on their server.

How to financially handle things, well... I'm not an accountant, but basically this team would be the partners of Advicenators LLC. By using a limited partnership, we would be protected as a company without having to worry about losing our shirts from our personal bank accounts. There is likely a way to get the site to at least break even on a regular basis, and by starting with ideas held by the supporting members and moderators, it can probably be done.

Think of yourself as the Chair on the board of directors. The only thing you have to do is select the rest of the board and whatever management you want. You have the social aspect of the management in place - those being the L2/3 moderators. Use us.

If you think this has any merit at all, then let's really talk about this more and bring more people in on it.

naww... the Chair of any board isn't the focal point, nor do they really do all that much. And in time, you could step down - I just think it wise to maintain some involvement at first, even if only slight or in name.

Hmmm...

I'm considering it, heavily.

Two questions, though.
1) What server specs would be required (minimum for running the site).
2) How much disk space does the site currently take up, and how large is/are the database(s)?
3) How much bandwith/month on average (and if you have a min/max number (so far), as well, I'd appreciate that).

and the Advicenators, LLC idea isn't too bad.

It's a shame you no longer want to run it, it's a great site (Although I'm not longer active on it. I really should be, again).

Well I've got neither the time nor the money to devote to such a big project, but I hate to see the crackers win, so I'm offering moral support for what it's worth.