User blog comment:WS9167/My retirement from the MBs and my retirement from the wiki./@comment-4988283-20120430030606

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"Hello everyone –

First off, thank you again for sharing your thoughts. We cannot say enough that we are very sorry that this decision has upset you. It was not the Moderation Team's intention to upset the community in any way. The happiness of the community is very, very important to us. After all, if there were not users on the LMBs there would not be any need for Moderators.

We are listening to your complaints, suggestions, and feedback. We are trying our best to respond to them by explaining my thoughts as well. By understanding each other’s point of view we can best come to a solution that makes everyone happy.

Let’s take the Friday date off the table. We will not close Music and Bands if we do not reach a resolution by that time. We do still feel that closing Music and Bands is best, but we want to make sure that we all agree on that before it happens.

Now we know how much you care about Music and Bands, that you do not think it has spam, and that you don’t agree with my reasons to close it. Is that right?

Can you think that it is active enough to warrant an entire sub-forum? Do you think that it is completely on topic to LEGO? Is there any alternative that you can think of that would make you happy? What if we closed the inactive topics and renamed the sub-forum to something more LEGO related? Could we then only add new topic threads that matched that new title and complimented the topics that you saved from the old Music and Bands? What solution do you see other than just keeping things as they are?

We really, really want your suggestions! We are listening to you and we want nothing more than to come to a solution that makes everyone happy. We will not close Music and Bands this Friday. Let’s all make sure that the community and the Moderators come to an agreement first. We absolutely need to find a way to support the great creativity that you have all been displaying (and the Mods have all been enjoying) while keeping the LMBs organized and on topic.

Thank you!! We look forward to seeing what new solutions you all come up with.

WhiteAlligator "

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