Not all there yet, and you have to re-register.

rose

Re-registering means: YOU HAVE TO SIGN ON AS IF YOU HAD NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE.....
JL explains it for several pages under 'Forum Feedback' It has all been reconstructed from SCRATCH, a Blank site with format...He is working on retrieving what he can of prior posts but, it will take time.. I signed on at about 10 AM, not gotten my e-mail reply yet, but, IMAGINE hundreds trying all at once! Patience is required...systems and people can only do so much at once... - j

I am beginning to trust this new site, as I feel there is access to the guy who put it up, and moderators who let themselves be known. Good that JL attended to business, but does this mean we switch back? I know some of you are on several support boards, but I've never been on more than one at a time.

What's everyone going to do?

Good point LizaJane,

I like the idea of the moderators introducing themselves and they are familar names. I lost everything on the old site--I had addresses or links stores in various places. But with the prime site gone they went too. Lesson learned --hard copy of all important information.

I don't know which way to go either. This new site is becoming comfortable.

I was not able to sign up at BT1 with my actual e-mail address. I had to use a free account, because the BT confirmation messages did not make it past my e-mail server. I don't even know what that free account was anymore.

Fixing this is certainly possible. However, it requires a site admin to, ahem, pay attention to the problem.

You probably see where I'm going with this.

Forum discussion about the "two" Braintalks going on here at this link:

http://forums.braintalk2.org/showthread.php?t=2387

It seems unlikely, from the posts I've read, that all of the stickies and info and links and very complicated posts will be recovered at OBT (JLester's site).

It seems terrible that all that detailed information and research was just ... lost.

Unfortunately, when a system crashes ... that's what happens.

I have two backup drives for my own little computer, and they alternate backing up each night. This cost me a couple of hundred dollars for two drives, and a program to automatically run backup.

But what would that amount to, in terms of time and money and system management, I wonder, for backing up a website of OBT's magnitude?

So ... in either place, members will be starting from scratch, yes?

I lost my password on the old site ages before it went down and could never get back on. I tried re-registering with different names etc but the site would never send to me a confirmation email. I tried to contact the administrators over and over and they just ignored my emails.

I managed to sign on when the new / old site got up and running though. And here I am on here too.

Mr Bojangles

well...welcome mr bojangles.

I'm not exactly sure what got this thread going again, but about OBT and JL and charity:

I have found all his posts related to his soliciting and collecting money from us, and see differences in what was reported to US, vs what was reported to the Second Life folk.

It is clear from what he wrote online that he took money from a nonprofit and used it on a commercial site to buy land for an endeavour that one could hardly therapeutic.

I believe it is fraud, and when I get a minute, and remember, I want to send the info on to the regulotory commission of Mass Charities. Unfortunately, I had hunted it all down for NY, then forgot to hunt for who to report fraud to in Mass.

I was rather taken aback at the responses of my computer literate, geeky friends. They found the things he wrote to us a bunch of gobbledygook which made a simple problem seem incredibly expensive, and then, somehow, managed to still not solve it. He had promised, for instance, that he was buying, and bought, elaborate backup mechanisms for the database. Which then somehow disappeared.

I feel conned into giving money to him.

I am also sorry at how many people still post over there, and theydo have a lot of acivity, because it's all just support for John, the great community builder, who is making gobs of money at Second Life. Personally, I don't think he's done a great job of building a community (rather a fascist state), and when I check over there from time to time I see he has virtually nothing to do with it. He never explained what happened, and doesn't come back to talk with folk. He's got a great job now.

I think this link will take you to the road I followed to the "smoking gun" of the misuse of charitable donations for personal profit. Please remember, building an island on Second Life to attract aspies is NOT a therapeutic activity. It is a fun thing for aspies to do, and is another market for the Second Life product.

If interested:

http://www.lizajane.org/PN/Users/liz...ester File.doc

It's long, butt he salient things are highlighted.

Anybody will knowledge of who monitors massachusetts charities, I'd be happy to hear from.

I don't know about Mass, but in CT charity fraud and misuse of charitable funds is reported to the Attorney General.

When I type MA charity fraud into google, it is the Attorney General for MA that comes up as the first result.

This site might help you-
http://www.ago.state.ma.us/sp.cfm?pageid=972