One thing no one has really addressed is what happens when an entity does something as drastic as what Key did to its forum – the trust of the members is now completely gone.

Some of the most interesting threads in here have been going on for months or even years. Yes, we all know that Key owns everything in here, but still, there was a certain expectation, a social contract, that what the forum posters created on their own would remain, largely unaltered. Key has tossed that straight in the bin, as my cousins across the Atlantic say.

A serious miscalculation on Key’s part. TIGHAR did the same thing when it made its forums pay-to-post, and they have never recovered or been anywhere near as useful and vibrant as they once were/