Post by chris on Nov 7, 2013 18:09:38 GMT
Andrew I hope I'm not speaking out of turn here.
As part of the Assetz team I'm really happy that we've been able to step in and help create an independent site for users of all platforms. Whilst we will no doubt end up creating our own forum within the site, as there will be discussion that has it's place there, I do feel very strongly that there should be an independent community where the industry as a whole can be discussed and scrutinised. After all we will learn much from open debate helping us realise where our own views may need to change, we're never going to get everything right first time and without that scrutiny and challenge there would always be a chance we would remain stuck with poor decisions.
If all this is going to come to pass then there is a very real need for us to be planning to hand over day to day control of this forum to a group of people with no direct interest in any of the platforms, and it would be great to start a discussion around the best way to achieve this. I know a couple of discussions are taking place behind the scenes with select individuals who had previously been active on the last independent forum, and I'm sure that whatever is decided now will be very different from how the site is run in several years time. That said I would be really interested in the communities thoughts as to how we should go about making sure that all platforms that want to be involved can do so, whilst enabling the creation of a genuinely independent forum that is truly run and moderated by the community itself.
As part of the Assetz team I'm really happy that we've been able to step in and help create an independent site for users of all platforms. Whilst we will no doubt end up creating our own forum within the site, as there will be discussion that has it's place there, I do feel very strongly that there should be an independent community where the industry as a whole can be discussed and scrutinised. After all we will learn much from open debate helping us realise where our own views may need to change, we're never going to get everything right first time and without that scrutiny and challenge there would always be a chance we would remain stuck with poor decisions.
If all this is going to come to pass then there is a very real need for us to be planning to hand over day to day control of this forum to a group of people with no direct interest in any of the platforms, and it would be great to start a discussion around the best way to achieve this. I know a couple of discussions are taking place behind the scenes with select individuals who had previously been active on the last independent forum, and I'm sure that whatever is decided now will be very different from how the site is run in several years time. That said I would be really interested in the communities thoughts as to how we should go about making sure that all platforms that want to be involved can do so, whilst enabling the creation of a genuinely independent forum that is truly run and moderated by the community itself.
