Bob, the software that runs this forum and every forum was written by me back in 2000. I called it "ForumsAmerica.com."

It was not written for OP.

It was written to host various forums I was previously paid to manage on CompuServe, and for Microsoft when those entities decided to discontinue what they called "user created content" and save paying many people like me a substantial sum as independent contractors.

I wrote the software to emulate the CompuServe interface, especially the ability of forum members to post message directly to each other or to All. The visual interface is "dated" to younger folks. The interfce never bothered me. I was interested in message board discussion text, not what page design looked like. 

The software was written so I or anyone could create their own Forum instantly, add an unlimited number of Forums and /or Domain names.

As an aside, over on Firearms Forum, the Sysop there is Mark Freburg. He also managed my Firearms Forum on Compuserve back around 1985. He and members of that location moved to a domain I purchased called FirearmsForum.com. 

Many of the members in Firearms Forum today are individuaals who joined FirearmsForum.com when I created the site back in 2000.

I did not create OceanPinesForum.com until 2004. This was after seeing a newpaper article that a board member named Mark Venit wanted the board to create a OPA online forum at a cost of $50,000 and it would take six months to accomplish.

I read that and thought - heck I can create such a forum at zero cost and do it in five minutes.

Not fully aware of all the ridiculous board politics at the time, especially with the then board majority despising Venit and other minority members, I was immediately branded as a "Venit lover" and equally despised.

I had never met Venit and would not have known the man if he had came to my front door.

Tom Stauss, super board supporter at the time, wrote that anyone who went to OceanPinesForum would get a computer virus.

A reporter named John Bozman for another local paper wrote articles containing supposed emails from people who joined the forum and suffered all sort of computer problems.

I asked him to send me copies of these emails he was publishing. The nitwit did.

They all contained, hidden away, the IP addresses of sender.

He had created fake emails and was creating and sending the fake forum attacks to himself and then publishing.

I took a stack to his editor. 

They fired him the same day.

How bad was the feeling among board members in the majority back then about the three-member minority that included Venit?

How about this? I attended a board meeting in 2004, second floor of the old YC, if I remember correctly. First one in many years.

One of the minority board members announced his resignation. He had had enough.

What did members of the majority do on hearing him resign?

Tom Sandusky and Skip Carey immediately turned to each other did a high-five.

Frankly, little has changed. Substitute Amy Peck for Mark Venit.

The obsession with Peck by two board members is ongoing and excessive. Ditto over on Get Involved where Admin Esther Diller allows a vulgar and disgusting personal attack on Peck to remain public - as of this morning anyway.

Their man won. Get over this childish nonsense.