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Internet forums have a habit of being run by people who, very understandably, become interested in other things in life and, over the years, the site admin can slip from being foremost in their minds. The key forum members can fall out and start banning each other, which doesn't help. Likewise, once very keen moderators can also become inactive. I belonged to an old car forum which was administered by someone who simply never used it. If the site went down, someone had to ring her and ask if she could do a reboot. Needless to say something went wrong with the server hardware and, since there was no backup, everything was lost. The decades of accumulated expertise of its members were simply gone in a flash. Whilst that was about 15 years ago with a forum run by old car fuddy-duddies that had only been running for a few years, a more recent and spectacular disaster was the Nekochan forum for 3D graphic wizards which ran for about 15 years. Anyone, trying to run a Silicon Graphics com...