I’ve been reading accusations, foot stamping and finger pointing, as well as “my dad could beat your dad” style of arguments. I honestly couldn’t care less who stole what website from whom. Hamburglar could have stolen it from Ronald McDonald for all I care. What I do know is that for a long, long time the site seemed stagnant, nothing was really being done with it, no changes being implemented, no improvements being made. I’m talking from the perspective of an outsider, by the way, not as someone who had the faintest idea of what was going on behind the scenes. I didn’t know – or cared – who owned the site before, and I didn’t know that someone else now apparently owned it. What I did see was that the site was finally moving forwards, things were being done, improvements were being made. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to work with the antiquated system the website is based on, so any improvements were a great thing and a credit to the person/people fiddling with the code.
So is the website now going to move back into stagnation?
As far as missing money is concerned, I haven’t the faintest clue if there’s money missing or not, and to be honest, neither really does anyone else, it seems. Embezzlement is a very serious accusation, so the very first step should be to prove that there is definitely money missing, and then things can go from there. But what is absolutely crystal clear to me is that not one single solitary cent should be donated to this site by ANYONE until a proper, trustworthy system is in place for handling the incoming money. Because even if no one did steal money this time, clearly it’s rather easy for someone to do just that in the future. I realise there’s no such thing as a guarantee in life anymore, and that when someone donates to a site like this, it’s done so based on trust, but the system in place at the moment seems rather a shambles and certainly inspires absolutely no trust at all in me.
Now I can go back to keeping my thoughts to myself.