What's next for YarisWorld?

[WeeYari]

Been quietly following this thread as I am torn. Since I don't care for the way the Yaris is 'maturing', my current Gen2 will probably be my last Yaris. As such, I'd prefer to live out the last of my days here.

Bueller without a doubt owns the domain name of choice, loaded with rich content which he also owns. Sure, with thread creator consent, content can be ported, but good luck finding the owners of a great deal of the valuable content. Unless the lights went out here, any new startup would be hard pressed to compete.

But as a managed website, this place absolutely sucks. In any organizational hierarchy, absentee management, lack of delegated distributed authority, ignoring and not recognizing the contribution of those working for you is a recipe for doom. The great moderator revolt of 2009 should have been a wake up call for YB. He cannot sit in isolation and pull all the strings. Hell, when I worked as a manager for the team responsible for developing and maintaining a series of corporate websites, many of those reporting to me held way more technical power. My power was in signing authority and ultimate approval of any decisions being made.

We need;

- moderators who are groomed as if succession planning was a corporate mandate.

- the appointment of new moderators to augment the 3 who are currently active. Replace those users who currently have moderator authority, but who've long ago disappeared.

- site refreshes. Quarterly site refreshes were top priority of those that I managed. Stale is a killer.

- sub-forum and content cleanup.

Good luck to you tk, and may this community live on in a progressive fashion.