Scared I was going to witness the second crash of GG. Best of luck UB. I'm competent enough with computers to end up messing something up lol
Sent from my twisted mind of the mudman
I assure you, I am no better! In fact that is exactly why this place has two Admins! The desire for both this site and the Machinist Gazette were mine. I will claim that. However, I knew before either site existed that I did not have the knowledge to do the Admin stuff needed to do the tech savvy stuff to operate a site. I approached Rusty and asked for his advise on how to move forward to create the sites. Rusty amazingly stepped up and told me that in addition to the site that he owned, the package he was paying his host company would allow him to add as many as three more sites! Rusty suggested that we become partners so to speak. He told me he would cover the bases for his site and those I developed by taking care of the Admin stuff (everything beyond what a moderator would do) All I had to do was build the sites on, essentially templates, for lack of a better word. The sites I built was the part you see when you come to the site, sections and topics etc. So, how could I pass, that was a better solution than I ever dreamed would come my way! So, he supplied the templates, I designed the original sites, and we opened them up. Of course, countless changes, including the first site implosion, and many others have changed both site designs greatly since both sites were opened.
Thank the Lord for the great Mods that run both GG & MG! Without those guys I doubt either site would exist today! Recall, I was awol for several years, I mean totally out of the picture for every bit of two years, maybe more!
Fortunately what happened was exactly what I wanted to happen. I wanted sites where their continued existence did not depend on me.
So see, I am only smart in some ways, but Fortunately, they are ways that count. I simply surround myself with others that are smarter than I am. That is not due to laziness, but rather just enough smarts to know that I need to rely on the sharp folks like these mods to keep things on track and running right!
Heck, if everything was left up to me I would still be stumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch to open this place back up!
