A few questions

I'd PM you Ray, but you now restrict who can do that, or those who can easily find your past threads/posts, (whether as Ray Horgan, or Rayh.) Does this indicate that you may also have personal issues with lurkers the site? If so......probably not "cock and balls" or "bullshit" after all.......but serious concerns that it would be nice to be reassured over by the new management going forward.

This is the 4th owner since I joined in 2015. People seem initially keen to buy us. I suspect that's mainly because of that market leading domain name, which would always get lots of interest.
I can only see one way that someone is actually going to maximise return on their investment though......
No one can stop them opening this forum up. (Probably the only way there is going to be a return to increased activity on here anyway), but if they do, I will want my historical posts protected.

I wonder whether, if, the new owners do decide to open the forum up, they could set up the site so new visitors could only access the archive from the date it changed. If this was the case, it would allow the posts on the current closed forum to only be seen by members who joined the forum on that basis. That would be reassuring.............
Other options?
1. Delete individuals posts on request. That will create a very disjointed archive.
2. Delete the whole archive. That would be a sad day.
3. Individuals choose to go down your route of restricting access to profile pages. Your info can still be found though, just not easily.
.......will an open forum have that function though?.......

Issues? Bullshit? I am preferring to be proactive with new owners, rather than spitting the dummy if and when they make changes that impact on my levels of privacy..

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