User blog:PsiCubed2/Since most of the veterans abandoned ship, it is up to us

Let us all get our sh*t together and start fixing this place up.

And as a first step, I am asking Edwin:

Please come clean regarding all of your active sock puppets, and give us hard evidence that you haven't left any of them out.

Because as long as people are required to guess who is genuine and who is a sock puppet, this place isn't safe. And a new forum won't be any safer, because it is completely insane to violate the privacy of all of our members just because of the possible shinanigans of one man.

I will also add that as one of the very few expert googologists who is still here, I can tell you that I'm sick and tired of trying to guess who is a genuine new member and who is a sockpuppet. This is particularly unfair to the newer members, most of which aren't even aware that there's a potential problem.

This has gone long enough. Edwin, you've messed this place up with you little games. If you've truly reformed as you claim you have, then you'll fix what you've broken. No games. No tricks. Here's you're chance to prove to everyone that you're really sorry for what you did.

BTW you have my word that I will not use any of the information you provide against you IRL. You should know me well enough to realize that I will never break such a promise (and that if I had any intention of destroying a 17-year-old-who-is-going-through-a-phase in court, we wouldn't even be having this conversation).

And after Edwin does what he needs to do, we can all - finally - begin to discover the true joy of learning googology and rebuilding a healthy community. First here. And in the very long run, we'll probably want to migrate to a better site, but that's for later.

Note:

I know that there are some people who don't like it when I bring the sockpuppet issue up when everything looks quiet. I'm really sorry about this, but it is important. A situation where every newbie is subject to even the tiniest suspicion is not healthy, and ignoring the problem will not make it go away.