First let me say that my intentions are not to start any kind of controversy here, but......
I remember Shade from the Cadalog forums. I don't know how many posts he had and I don't remember the extent of his expertise or quality of responses, quite honestly I don't care, but I think that while his first post was stating that he wanted to start a forum of his own, it also stated that this forum provides alot of AutoCAD help for those in need of it, and that the Cadalog site "was" providing that help, if you take it any other way, you fail to
I do not know about everyone here, but my thoughts are....
Most everyone here visits other forums regularly, some of you visit multiple forums, I know ... I have seen you there ... dczland, cadalog, vbexpresso, cadtutor, eng-tips, cadchat, autodesk discussion forums, paug and tbaug among others .... many of you have likely seen me there as well....many of you have never seen me there.... and never will... because for whatever reason, I have not registered ... the point is, that if you do not want to visit another forum then don't, it is not a big deal...but I suspect many will, and if Shade wants to do it then I say more power to him...The swamp is here to stay as far as I can tell and another forum is not likely to cause it's demise, if it does, then that either says volumes about the people who visit(ed) the demised forum, or the demised forum itself. Personally I think it might have been in poor taste to have his first post state that he wanted to start another forum, but that aside, wanting to help others is an admirable thing to do....and all of the complaining in the world will not change that ....