Forum Succession Agreement

[bigballofyarn]

I created this agreement with ProBoards last year. I feel that it's fine to share with the entire community. Before you worry, I am not terminally ill, nor am I dying any quicker than anyone else (to my knowledge). We are getting older though, and things like these need to be written out in advance.

In the event that I die alone, I am giving permission to fire.wolf [006] to put this forum in maintenance mode for all of eternity. He will do this on his own. I do not want the forum to be unlocked for any reason by anyone who may make a request on ProBoards Support.

If he and I die together, and/or neither of us log in for two weeks or more, a ProBoards Support admin will put this forum in maintenance mode as soon as any of the members of this forum provide proof of our deaths to ProBoards Support.

If he and I both stop logging in and our deaths cannot be confirmed or substantiated by anyone, there will be no bidding for my forum or allowing ownership to transfer to anyone other than fire.wolf [006], who was linked above. The ProBoards Support admins have my consent to put my forum in maintenance mode in this scenario.

Half-joke clause: If my tortoise develops superpowers, the ability to communicate, and the ability to type, he will do his best to inform ProBoards of my death, but he is too young to own a forum.

In these hypothetically morbid scenarios, posting may be disabled for all non-staff members during the brief period of time before my forum enters a permanent state of maintenance mode. Private messages will be left accessible and inboxes will be usable during this brief period of time.

Regardless of who reports any potential deaths to ProBoards Support, whether an exalted member, a relative, or a staff member, ownership will not be transferred to anyone under any conditions. ProBoards Support will make you aware that I left a succession agreement on file and that my forum is not eligible for transfer, even if it is left without any moderation.

More or less, my forum will die when either when I die or when ProBoards ceases to exist (both of which I hope won't be for a very long time).

However, if there is interest expressed in keeping this forum online in an archival, read-only format for references, memories, and so forth, that could also be an option that does not force unwanted responsibilities upon anyone.

Again, I am NOT DYING. Neither is Firewolf. Please do not be concerned or alarmed.

[Hungry Hungry Hippo]

[skeleton]

Understood <3

[Ohh Lacee]

Hugs <3

[Anxious Susie]

Makes sense you'd want it to die with you. OK.

[Yankeefan1955]

Sad that we're all getting old now

[Crazy Crow]

Hugs. We are all eternal.

Owen will take over.

[lithiumkat]

I can understand not wanting the forum to be taken over by someone else when your time here is done. <3

[Fatal Rewind]

Sept 26, 2023 8:34:34 GMT -5 Anxious Susie said:

Makes sense you'd want it to die with you.

That's be kind of a shame, but with private messages still be accessible people could gather about and make another forum, maybe a "Christina's Forums 2.0" or something.

It wouldn't be quite the same of course but that's the way it goes.

[Cohen Duplantis]

Fatal Rewind,
If Christina, Firewolf, and Owen aren't around to run it anyway, I'm not sure what mods would take over and give it the same feeling. I'm sure it was a hard decision.

2.0 sounds fun. I wonder who would run it.

[Not Shawn Hunter]

I understand. But it's good that NO ONE IS DYING!

A BBOY 2.0... interesting!!!!! Who would take over? Sounds spiffy.

[xea989]

She gave it an enormous amount of thought, very enormous.

Yeah there are mods here, but she's doing 95% of the work. Mods might not be able to take over all the work that comes with running the plugins, shop, other codes, and things no one really thinks about.

A lot goes on behind the scenes that Christina and Firewolf are 100% in charge of on their own.

With people trying to take possession of deceased admins forums and with other things going on, it was better to have it this way than for a rando to request ownership if this forum ended up without mods.

[Phantom Phreak]

60 more years for Yarn and ProBoards!!

[gibson]

I know it's kinda heartbreaking to think of all of us getting older, but I think I'm glad you told us so it's not just boom, the forum is gone one day and no one knows why.

[Grandpa Redwood]

Sept 26, 2023 17:17:07 GMT -5 xea989 said:

She gave it an enormous amount of thought, very enormous.

Yeah there are mods here, but she's doing 95% of the work. Mods might not be able to take over all the work that comes with running the plugins, shop, other codes, and things no one really thinks about.

A lot goes on behind the scenes that Christina and Firewolf are 100% in charge of on their own.

With people trying to take possession of deceased admins forums and with other things going on, it was better to have it this way than for a rando to request ownership if this forum ended up without mods.

Yes and it's common for sites to end when the owner ends. No one has to carry it on especially if it's not what the owner wanted.

There are great mods here, but Christina and Firewolf are doing most of the coding and such.