The owner has clearly abandoned this site and neglects it. Not only that, but the forum is badly outdated, hardly any moderation and you need to wait for the owner to register your account.
I feel this site would have a good future if one of us bought the site. Do you guys think its even possible? And if the owner is willing to sell how much for? How much is this site worth.
You guys might not know, but outside this site many people(excluding the Eurocentrics obviously) respect this site and see it as a vast library of critical information. As poster Zaharan calls it, the "base." By buying this site that library would continue.
Would this be a good idea?
Posted by Punos_Rey (Member # 21929) on :
I've actually thought about that too I know plenty of people wanting to join ES but the sign up process turns them off plus all the spam threads.
Posted by BlessedbyHorus (Member # 22000) on :
^^^Exactly! I too knew so many people that wanted to join, but the owner was never around to register them.
Posted by Nodnarb (Member # 3735) on :
I cannot deny that ES and its posters were critical in informing my views on this topic, especially by virtue of directing me to anthropological and archaeological literature. But I don't know if I would currently recommend it as a source for research. Even if the behavior of certain posters hadn't made it look unwelcoming over the years, a lot of potentially useful threads have been buried by the sands of time. And besides, I would prefer people going straight to sources written by scholars who know what they're talking about, rather than anonymous posters who quote-mine the literature in service of various agendas.
I do think an online database of sorts, like what Zarahan had set up years back, would be nice, but I wouldn't recommend ES in its place.
Posted by BlessedbyHorus (Member # 22000) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nodnarb: I cannot deny that ES and its posters were critical in informing my views on this topic, especially by virtue of directing me to anthropological and archaeological literature. But I don't know if I would currently recommend it as a source for research. Even if the behavior of certain posters hadn't made it look unwelcoming over the years, a lot of potentially useful threads have been buried by the sands of time. And besides, I would prefer people going straight to sources written by scholars who know what they're talking about, rather than anonymous posters who quote-mine the literature in service of various agendas.
I do think an online database of sorts, like what Zarahan had set up years back, would be nice, but I wouldn't recommend ES in its place.
I agree that the current state of the forum is terrible. But this can all change under new ownership.
Posted by Ish Gebor (Member # 18264) on :
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