I am a member of the CelestiaLights Senate on a diplomatic mission to the Original Trilogy.
TV's Frink asked that I reply here to reach out and help explain some things to your community that I was able to discuss with him. I firstly want to thank him for being open to discussion and not wanting to cause forum wars (Star Wars edition!).
I'd like to apologize for causing any disturbances (*ahem* in the Force) here by my having started this topic. It was never my intention to create such hostility in the members here. I will basically be telling you what I was able to talk to TV's Frink about.
I created this message board just a few nights ago out of a sudden burst of enthusiasm to finally do so (as I had been considering creating a Star Wars message board for quite some time after having had success running another active board). Of course, the biggest problem with making your own message board is acquiring members and promoting it. I first turned to social networking by means of Facebook and Twitter, though I wanted to reach out more to the Star Wars community in places where I figured I would find people who might consider joining. It's always a bit like walking on eggshells when you go about promoting a website, as some places clearly allow website advertising and others either don't or aren't as open to it.
I managed to find OriginalTrilogy.com after a few searches on Google and figured I'd take a chance making just one post about SWCL there. I don't have a lot of time these days (with work and preparing for a move coming up), otherwise I normally would take time to PM members individually and in more of a private and respectful manner to the message board itself rather than plastering it publicly. However, I didn't expect the flaming to crop up in this thread itself, which to me came across as unjustified, hurtful, surprising, and offensive. I don't know anyone here, and obviously you guys aren't familiar with me or CelestiaLights, so I wasn't clear as to why instant hostility seemed to spread like wildfire between everyone here. Deciding it best to leave this place alone and to not even bother trying to communicate, thereby fueling the fire, I had my other Administrator, Axiom Awaits, log in at OriginalTrilogy.com as me while I was away at work and just erase my post there, deciding that would be the best course of action in order to let all this unnecessary drama disparate.
I'll admit that contacting a board moderator before posting in a forum is probably the best course of action, though I probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere with my promotion of my other message board had I done that, truth be told. It's difficult starting out, and in order to get your name out there, you kind of have to step on a few toes, I've learned. I don't ever mean to be rude about it or to stir the pot to the point of it boiling over, so I usually try to approach promoting as delicately yet effectively as I can.
Thank you for your time in reading this, and I hope that we can move forward either in good nature or at least with some disregard for one another.