SpiritBoard re-opens
Posted on 11/23/11 02:59 AM
As of this post, SpiritBoard has been re-opened for posting. As explained in an email to all members and the previous post, from now on I will make an effort to re-establish SpiritBoard as a well protected spiritual forum, where everyone can feel safe sharing experiences, questions, answers, and doubts about esoteric and spiritual matters.
Welcome back!
SpiritBoard to re-open
Posted on 11/21/11 05:24 AM
Update: SpiritBoard is being prepared for re-opening, however with some significant changes in policy. Thanks to the feedback received since closing SpiritBoard, I have realized I have been much too lenient with certain members who were just here to undermine the purpose of having this board. Many feel that this was much more the reason for the downfall of SB, than my lack of participation. There has been a call to re-establish SpiritBoard as a "protected place" where one could feel safe and confident to share spiritual experiences, questions and doubts. In order to do so, from now on, there will be a much stricter policy regarding such destructive activities as observed over the last months and years. In order to do so, I would like to re-establish moderation, and if anyone feels the inner call to serve as a moderator, or would like to nominate someone, please contact me via private message.
IMPORTANT note: SpiritBoard closed
Posted on 10/05/11 04:06 AM
As site owner and administrator I had to make the difficult decision to resign (for the reasons, see
this thread), which means that SpiritBoard is
closed to new posts.
The site will not be shut down at this point but continue to be
accessible for reference, as it contains a wealth of spiritual information, and to allow a possible re-opening of the forums at a future date.
New forum member
sign-ups will remain open until further notice to allow people to be notified in case SpiritBoard re-opens.
It has been a very difficult decision to close SpiritBoard, which during its early years, during the first half of the last decade, was the leading forum on spirituality, and remains to date to be among the top spiritual forums. During the early "golden years" of this spiritual forum, we registered up to around 50 posts a day, had a fantastic team of moderators, and lots of active members. It was not uncommon to see a dozen or more members online at the same time. Due to some significant changes in my life in 2005 I was unable to spend as much time online as before, and although the presence or absence of one member (me) should not matter so much, SpiritBoard suffered from not having a full time admin, as the moderator team broke apart, followed by a number of other unfavorable events, leading to this closing of the SpiritBoard spiritual forums. Although it is with much sadness, I see no other option at this point, and I kindly ask all forum members for understanding. Hopefully the conditions will change, to allow a re-opening of SpiritBoard's spiritual forums, however without more support and help from forum members it is not very likely.
Lots of Light and Love,Gerrit