Who owns this site?

[Antigen]

Holy sheep shit, Carey! I think maybe you're right! I'll ask.

From a moderator around the end of September.
"We have had a number of people who are either admittedly or apparently mentally ill, and appear to compulsively return under new usernames to continue whatever behaviour caused them to be banned in the first place (e.g. posting child abuse threads during which they agree with themselves under multiple usernames). If contacting their ISPs doesn't change matters, these people have their real-world locations tracked down and the organisations which operate the computers concerned are informed. "

[Deborah]

Here's the message I got. The last statement is curious. Sounds like membership is limited to companies and academics. Was there a discussion about the THI there?

Barbelith's membership policy is currently under review

Barbelth is yet again experiencing problems with membership. Because of these problems, we can no longer allow people to simply join the board through a registration procedure until better mechanisms are in place for dealing with situations like this.

So how do you join? At the moment, if you want to become a member of barbelith you have to either 1) get someone on the board who you know already to recommend you (they'll have to send 'Tom Coates' a private message asking for you to be added) or 2) e-mail tom [at] barbelith [dot] com asking to join the board.

Unfortunately, for a whole variety of reasons, if you want to join you'll almost certainly also have to demonstrate that you are who you say you are. This probably means that you will not be given entry to the board if you use any free webmail account like hotmail or yahoo mail... Only e-mail addresses that can be directly associated with a person at a company or academic institution will be considered.

[Antigen]

Yeah, I'm looking through a lot of discussion on admin and moderation problems. Aparently, a troll or two has been getting under people's skin in a big way over there so they're circling the waggons. Not sure it has to do with the TB posting or not. But I did send a PM asking one of the mods (or now maybe former mods?)
 

No citizen of a liberal and democratic nation profits from a victorious war.
--Ludwig von Mises

[Carey]

It sure is odd.  I have requested membership but I have not gotten any kind of a response.

[Antigen]

Well, based on the conversations I read last night, looks like a very tight-knitt community experiencing some upheaval. The site never was dedicated particularly to juvenile treatment issues. They cover everything from the Büsh state visit to Buckingham to magick to gay rights.

After all, I'm pretty sure that the troll(s) in question hit the site long before the TB story and the community in general is just not all that interested in the story at this point. That's their prerogative. If they want to go private, then they will.

May your days be joyously challenging and your words artfully true.
--Ginger Warbis