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Originally Posted by lesorubcheek

Regarding motives, who really knows, but here's one possibility. Several years ago there was a group of people (including myself) actively participating on a chainsaw forum . The forum was an offshoot of another larger forum, this one specifically targeting one manufacturer of saws. There were roughly 20-25 active members, all sharing tons of lessons learned, solutions, and overall having a very good time bs-ing about our saws. As you can imagine, there was a mix of personalities, but we all respected each other and no one really ever got overly offended, we'd just focus on the saws and enjoy it.
Not sure exactly how it started, but one of the key members for whatever reason raised a question regarding ownership of the forum's information. Most members kinda felt like it was a communal effort. We all contributed and shared input freely and most felt "ownership" was a mute point and if anything we all "owned" it.
The forum's founder and administrator answer to this question, was that all rights to the intellectual property within the forum were owned by him. Guess he just didn't understand how to be tactful, but the way this came off upset many of the forum's members. The guy that had asked the original question about ownership started messaging us basically instigating a walkout from the forum. After a short time he deleted every post he'd ever made, basically wrecking many of the threads. Needless to say, the forum was never the same.
So, in that case, there was one person who at least felt he had a reason to bring that forum down and create whatever havoc he could. Don't think he ever did hack into the forum, even though there were some strange things that happened, but he did have a motive. I have no idea if someone, for whatever reason, may have developed some bad feelings for 914World, but that's at least one possibility. Who knows.

Dan

Based on some of the drama in our sandbox over the years, I wouldn't be surprised if someone held a grudge, but that is pretty selfish and sad if its true.