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that change gives Mods far more leeway to interpret CoC as they see fit.

There is a reason you sit behind TOR

Until this thread, there was nothing whatsoever about the way he acted that screamed RM. Plus, he'd not only have to change religions but also his standard-ish liberal politics for hyperreactionary monarchism. As someone who once pretended to be him for troll purposes way back in the day on DDO, it's not hard for me to imagine someone else impersonating him either.

Plus, over DMs I asked him a question he would probably remember the answer to were he RM, and I've yet to get a response several minutes later.

If you don't care about me writing code at this point and just want advise send me the github link

If you don't care about me writing code at this point and just want advise send me the github link

It's private, I'd need your github username.

Also I'm pretty sure no one else with access is gonna try and trace your local machine.

[AdaptableRatman]Our CoC bans encouraging criminal activity.

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I am not sure what you think is going on.

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We shall be proud to show our family and friends IRL that we are DARTers.

you think it means "family friendly" as in "you can show this to students in high-school and nobody will have an issue."

Our CoC bans encouraging criminal activity.

In almost all nations, bestiality is criminal activity.

Zoophilia isn't objectively one of them

If the CoC is unable to make that distinction, then it's nothing but a handbook for censorship and not worth respecting.

Hoping we can avoid that with the newer site by not relying on one owner. Gonna give multiple people access to the code. If you are willing to devote an hour or two to learning Node.js, plz join us. I can send you the discord link.

Hoping we can avoid that with the newer site by not relying on one owner. Gonna give multiple people access to the code. If you are willing to devote an hour or two to learning Node.js, plz join us. I can send you the discord link.

This is exactly what we will be doing to ensure continuity. 

That's good! I think the number one other thing you need to do unlike this site is have some actual good search engine optimization. It's crazy how difficult it actually was for me to stumble upon this one.

DebateArena

DebateOnline

Fuck it

Debate.com

Full circle

I have programming experience ( a lot ) and my experience tells me that the owner being the programmer is just about the only way this kind of thing is going to work.

If there is a 15k annual income (for whatever reason) you can just barely afford pay for per change contract work.

There are a few other options:

1.) Use an off the shelf system and don't mess with it

2.) Fork an open source codebase and commit yourself to understanding the open source contributions (pull requests). Do not underestimate the difficulty of automatically deploying a new codebase.

I repeat: Do not let it become the personal project of a single (unpaid) volunteer. That kind of thing destroys friendships. It's thousands of man hours of work.