William Stephen (Dare?) Griffin

[remc86007]

The recent return of old members and seeming influx of new members is great to see.

[Cheshire Cat]

Yes. Despite the accusations against me, I wish him well and good luck with his MetroJaxNews.com endeavor. We can never have too many people dedicating their time to the improvement of their communities.

And for the record, I'm not taking sides here. But I think we all should appreciate the effort Stephen put into the website over the years. Sometimes it's easy to concentrate a lot on the forum and its various personalities - I know I do - but the site has had a lot of great stuff over the years and Stephen was a part of that, love him or hate him. And he clearly cares a lot of Jax, as do so many involved with this site (whether owners, contributors or visitors).

I appreciate the site and have found it very interesting and helpful over the years. Let's hope it continues!

It's important to understand that what happened here had nothing to do with loving or hating him.  It had to do with choices he made and issues behind the scenes and there were many.  The site majority owners did what they had to do and did so without malice.  Let's keep that in mind going forward.  We all decide our own path through our own actions.  Remember that. 

[thelakelander]

The recent return of old members and seeming influx of new members is great to see.

For the record, both overall site and forum traffic are actually up over the last two weeks, despite no real effort to provide a daily front page blog post and zero promotion through social media.

[Cheshire Cat]

The recent return of old members and seeming influx of new members is great to see.

For the record, both overall site and forum traffic are actually up over the last two weeks, despite no real effort to provide a daily front page blog post and zero promotion through social media.

This is all very good news Ennis.  I think you will see a growth in following going forward. 

[riverside_mail]

OMG! That's the best thing I've seen all day! You win the Internet today!

[JaxJersey-licious]

TODAY, we are ALL Yawn, Idiot, & Dumb (and a little meh..)

Reactions to his contributions were varied but what was important was that he certainly contributed and for that I am thankful.

stephendare is dead - Long Live stephendare!

[Jimmy]

Nice to see some great original members coming back onto the forums.

[Jim]

Suzanne, Diane, Jimmy all in the same thread...is it 2006 again?

I miss it.

[Cheshire Cat]

Suzanne, Diane, Jimmy all in the same thread...is it 2006 again?

I miss it.

Good times, perhaps they now return? 

[Suzanne Jenkins]

glad to be back, i missed it too.... but the price was too high until recent events  

[RattlerGator]

What an eye-opening thread. I appreciate the sunshine; some things that never made sense now most definitely *do* make sense. And Ennis, I apologize. I had concluded you and he were best friends, that you signed off on some of the craziness, and that you were subservient to him.

[Suzanne Jenkins]

do i really have to be a "newbie"   can't i have my old status back... i forget what it was but i know it was much more than "newbie" 

[Houseboat Mike]

Mt $.02- I understand disputes happen and all, but I am sill incensed that all of his prior postings were removed- I can only hope there is a legal/logical explanation. I am a latecomer to this site, I found it purely by accident looking up articles about downtown. But there were some truly epic articles that were written by him that contributed to the public discussion of this city. His comments not so much perhaps, but still.

[thelakelander]

^Legally, it's his intellectual property and not Metro Jacksonville, Inc's.  Hopefully, he'll upload it to his website, MetroJaxNews.com.

[spuwho]

^Legally, it's his intellectual property and not Metro Jacksonville, Inc's.  Hopefully, he'll upload it to his website, MetroJaxNews.com.

I always said that Stephen had enough material after some 35,000 posts to write a book or two. Now is his chance.