User blog comment:Luckyluxius/I got bullied... again/@comment-44446459-20191211184700/@comment-39541634-20191212203430

If we seriously decide that we're going to move, then it won't take more than a few dedicated people to create tons of content for the new site. People like me, yourself and Moooosey for starters. Once the new site gets a little momentum, I'm sure others will join the project as well.

The question is: Would is really solve our problem? We need to be 100% sure that it does, before making such a major decision.

A few concerns:

1. How secure is that site? Edwin may not be a professional hacker, but he had shown profiency in using mediawiki scripts to do... well... unorthodox things. So any candidate alternative site must have a strong security system place.

2. What potential problems, if any, might arise from the owners of that miraheze site themselves? Are the any special conditions-of-use we must be aware of? Any unwritten quirks of the system?

3. Are we honestly and seriously prepared to turn our site into a members-only club? I, personally, have no problem with that. But I remember that the last time this notion was suggested, the majority didn't like the idea.

4. What are we going to do with all the new people who came to this wiki in the past two years? How do we deal with the contradiction of:

(a) a good community relies on trust and mutual respect.

(b) the possibility that any of the new members might be an Edwin sockpuppet?

Granted, this last item would remain a problem even if we don't move. But the situation is aggrevated on a members-only site, because there we would be forced to make a clear-cut decision: Who do we invite? What would we do, if a person we invited starts to exhibit suspicious behavior?

Just thinking out loud here.