what ever happened to the gaylifeinthailand board ?

[Nirish guy]

So, whilst clearing out some old saved bookmarks earlier I came across a link which I must have saved at one point for what is the now totally defunct gaylifeinthailand.com board - and it just reminded me of that whole saga and it made me think back and wonder what WAS all that about ?! Was as it was claimed at the time simply it a genuine attempt by someone new to create a new board and nothing more than that, or was it perhaps one of the old hands from one of the existing boards having a go at establishing their own board, or was it as many suspected at the time good old Neal Bernard just stirring the shit and thus doing what he tended to do best perhaps ??

From what I recall at the time when the board appeared there were many detailed and point blank denials from Neal that he was involved or had anything to do with the board but if I recall correctly he then changed his story and suggested that well he "might" have been involved at the start or perhaps owned the domain name or something ( as we all know how much he liked to buy up and try to control board via their domain names :-) but that he'd then he sold the name / board on to some other guys who had then let him down and were he believed ending up using that domain for something totally different ( porn perhaps he thought) and he said thought they were "stupid" / crazy and that wanted nothing more to with them after that and told them how disappointed he was in them not carrying the project through etc ( or am I getting that confused with his other board - there were so many !? :-)).

But I see on clicking on the boards URL that the site is in fact still there, albeit unused since November 2013 or so it seems, but it certainly hasn't used for porn etc as Neal had suggested ? ( again if I'm remembering things correctly ?).

So, purely out of nosiness and as I believe enough time has passed now that it doesn't matter to anyone I was just wondering did anyone EVER actually get to the bottom of what that whole thing was about or was that indeed just yet another one of Neals attempts a derailing things in general like his other bullshit failed "gentleman board" and the various bitch board ownerships etc that he'd lied about owning for so long etc so much about until he was rumbled or like I say WAS it just a genuine attempt by someone at starting another board perhaps ??

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[Surfcrest]

Oddly enough, despite over a year without a single post the site is still there.

http://gaylifeinthailand.com/

I don't think it had anything to do with Neal Bernard, but the timing to launch such a board was far less than ideal.

On a slightly different note, I can tell you though that sclivejames was a fabrication of Neal's. The email address that this user was registered too was the Board's own email address (Long since inactive).
I recently discovered this while screening through the inactive memberships while fighting this recent "Spam" attack :AR!

http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/the...3.html#p268273

http://sawatdeenetwork.com/forum/pos...ejames#p270002

Surfcrest

[Nirish guy]

:-) I'm glad you were the first to reply here Surfcrest as I was hoping you wouldn't take offence at the question even being asked on your board :-)

i know quite a lot of existing board members registered with that board but I'm guessing everyone was sitting back to see either who or what was really behind it ( if anything ) - and as you say if ( and assuming) it was just a genuine attempt by someone at opening another board yes as you say it was very unfortunate / unwise timing for them perhaps based on all the shite that was flying back then and to be fair to whoever was behind it they seem to have spent quite a bit of time putting it all together too :-(

See, just like comedy it appears that when it comes to gay thailand boards timing also is everything there too it seems !

[Surfcrest]

:-) I'm glad you were the first to reply here Surfcrest as I was hoping you wouldn't take offence at the question even being asked on your board :-)

Actually, as I've said before I consider this "our" Board...not "my" Board. I'm just the custodian without a lot of custodial duties to look after other than a little routine maintenance and the odd battle with Spam in the background. So certainly no offence taken...of course. and I've always treasured your opinion.

Surfcrest

[fountainhall]

That Board never took off. It had nothing whatever to differentiate it from the other gay Boards. It didn't even have many posters as evidenced by this forlorn plea from an anonymous member -

Posting is the lifeblood of any site like this one. Please post some items of interest to keep this place alive. I believe that the owners/originators have given us a great place to hang out but it is up to us to get ourselves and others posting interesting things.

A great place to hang out! Hmmmm!

[Rogie]

Looks like a couple of useful features:

http://gaylifeinthailand.com/currency.php

http://gaylifeinthailand.com/weather.php

[Smiles]

There is a newly-posted thread on that board now, responding to this thread: http://gaylifeinthailand.com/viewtopic.php?t=214
An eerie note from a coffin buried in a shallow grave.

All I remember about that board is that it was so heavily moderated that a single word possessing even a scintilla of an edge to it was immediately stifled. The Admin of GaylifeinThailand really didn't have a clue.
That board has not seen a member log in for going on one year now and the owner is still stating that " ... This board will become part of a much larger project I am still working on and hope to launch second half this year ... ". Well, I think he wrote something like that a year ago.
Not sure about anyone else, but I'm on absolute tenterhooks, waiting.

[catawampuscat]

Maybe it should have been called gaydeathinthailand. :ymdevil:
Neal pushed it as part of his quest to kill this forum but he failed.
What a nightmare the man was right till the end

[catawampuscat]

Just read the attack on smiles and surfcrest on gaylifeinthailand forum. I didn't
know smiles was the ring leader of a cabal here and that only after we all croak
will the young generation run things on the gaythailand forums. Thomas a clearly
delustional failure, even with much pumping by the deceased former owner here.

[Smiles]

Yes, he does seem to have a few issues. And a 'cabal' fetish to boot.
And the nerve you say: calling all the members of Sawatdee 'common'. Last time I checked only Kommentariat could be classed as 'common'. All the rest are certifiably Hi-So.