The king is dead. Long live the king!

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Dear ILP members,

Well, this is it. After 7 years running this website I have decided it’s time for me to go. A while back I decided I didn’t have enough time to admin the site full time and passed over the day to day administration to Uccisore, who has guided the site and the staff with aplomb. However, that still wasn’t enough, and a site like this needs nurturing behind the scenes aswell as at the front and that is time and effort which I can no longer give. So as of next week, I am passing over the entire running of the site to Carleas, who has offered to take the site from me.

If you will permit me a few personal words of thanks.

Firstly I’d like to thank the staff. People who I’ve never met before in real life, but have given up their time voluntarily for no wage and often for no thanks. They do a difficult job without complaining and so to all the staff at ILP, both past and present, I would like to offer my sincere thanks. The site would literally not have run without you.

I’d like to say a particular thanks to Uccisore, who took on the task of administrator from me and has managed the staff and the site better than I could have expected. Ucci, thank you, I wish you all the best for the future.

And finally, a thank you to you, the members. Many of you across the years didn’t really like me, and a lot of you didn’t even know me, but to those who I did converse with, and argue with and debate with, it was great fun and I thank you for allowing me to share those times with you, especially in the early days of ILP. To those of you who I came to blows with, I hope it’s all water under the bridge. After all, it’s just philosophy! :wink:

I will probably never be able to let go of entirely of ILP, a project that I started 7 years ago as a 17 year old student, but it is right that I let it go formally, so that someone else can put the time and effort that is needed, to make this a vibrant place for the discussion and exploration of philosophy.

I wish the site, Carleas, the staff and you the members, all the best for the future and hope that ILP is still igniting interest in philosophy for many years to come.

For one last time, thank you and good night.

Ben

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Thank you for everything and may your life be filled with dreams fulfilled. The staff here are good people, you did well by them and with them. Enjoy

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Farewell kind stranger. =D>

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Thank you for everthing.

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Thanks, ILP has helped me personally more than you could imagine.

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1st: i’m damn lucky to have found this so soon after it was posted, is i’m usually late/not around due to my constraints.

ILP had alot of entertainment value as well as intellectual/social experience/psychological value.

there where some crazy times and some great gags, humor goes a long way.

now ben, you have seemed to be even more discreet than me, but i’m betting your peak activity here was before i was registered and knew about this site.b4 i existed here.

i don’t know a thing about carleas and have read about one of his posts. further i go to any web site that wants me more.

because this is a goodbye, i’m not going to mention that unfortunate thread(s) about bodily fluids, even though i did not read it anyway.and just mentioned it.

but well,as (i said about) dunamis after you,Ben I barely knew ye.

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Good luck in all your endeavors, Ben.

Thank you for the site.

Goodbye.

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Dude you started this when you were 17? Crazy man…

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Yes, and now it’s populated by a man who’s location reads “up the ass and around the corner”.

I’m sighing now. Ben is sighing. Kriswest is sighing. I can hear it through the tubes.

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i love stuff…

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This is not the thread for Anchorman references.

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lmao i didn’t even realize…

Its a shame that this site ain’t what it used to be though…

Maybe it will get a second wind…

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Maybe.

It’s fun to look over the old posts and see how open and well-spoken everybody was then.

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Hey someone’s gotta make the commons tragic. If it makes you feel better, I’m not really as dumb as I act here. I don’t really expect you to believe that.

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Best of luck, man!

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Ben, all of my appreciation for the years and effort and money you put into this site over the years. I’ve been with you since very near the beginning and have gained much from the people and information I have come by through your creation. And I’m just 1 of 10,000 members.

What are you doing these days anyway? Still in the U.K.? I know you were visiting Israel off and on, during your years at uni. Hope it all goes well for you.

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Wow, sad.

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Best of luck, Ben.

And thanks for everything.

(Except of course for banning Dunamis.)

Godspeed, good man.

–Jerry

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Well done with ILP Ben. Thanks for everything.

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:frowning:

Well thank you for giving us ILP!!!

I hope I witness a rennaisance in here or something.