what we made was create a showcase website for fanedits, because several of us had the feeling that OT was not sufficient for representing fanedits especially to new visitors. you know how hard it is to find something here or to surf through the thousands of posts for something you are looking for. Our small website, let me call it FE, was easily set up and the next thing was to acquire some faneditors to get their info posted. We used different sources: piratebay, demonoid, some other torrent sites, some other forums,w here people talk about fanedits and of course OT to do that. We attached a little forum to our website, so people could talk about what they saw there.
And that's about it.
I always loved OT, I am a regular here, visiting daily and I had no intention whatever to divert the community, actually it was Jay, who started these discussions and made our little forum more important than it was supposed to be (later we had to find out, it was also a money issue that made this all so bad). We wanted to be an addition, not a replacement, and I think we still are, though, since the flamewars have already started, it seems people have the feeling they have to decide for a side, but I say: don't do it. If you can visit what you like, just go there, because you like it. Friendships are more important than websites. When Jay offered me to swallow our website and keep it under OT so the community stays together, I offered him to delete our forum (since he claimed this was the main thing concerning him), if people could talk on OT about FE. I saw and see no reason, why FE has to be within the OT server to keep the community together, especially if we were fully linked to each other. Jay has denied that request. Is it a trust issue? Now why should I trust Jay more than he trusts me? This has become way complicated.
So, think what you want about us contacting faneditors to post information about their fanedits in a showcase. If nothing is taken away, nothing is stolen.
I will not accept to be treated like a betrayer.