Requesting to take on an abandoned forum?

[ludachris]

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Just wondering who to contact about requesting to become an admin to take over an abandoned forum. The forum in question hasn't had any activity from the admin or moderators in years, and they don't respond to messages. 

[Kami]

Jan 27, 2021 9:39:36 GMT -8 ludachris said:

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Just wondering who to contact about requesting to become an admin to take over an abandoned forum. The forum in question hasn't had any activity from the admin or moderators in years, and they don't respond to messages. 

Generally speaking, you can't. Unless the forum owner (username "admin") has a succession plan in place, forums are left alone. Some exceptions based on circumstance may be made, but those are rare and far between. Since I can't see the forum URL, I can't really make a better guess as to which situation this will be, but for whatever it's worth, in the cases of exceptions to the rule new staff are generally picked from active members, assuming the site is still active enough to warrant moderation.

[ludachris]

Well that's too bad. Sucks to see the forum die off with nobody at the controls. 

[Kami]

Jan 27, 2021 9:57:36 GMT -8 ludachris said:

Well that's too bad. Sucks to see the forum die off with nobody at the controls. 

I'm not a PB admin so I can't tell you whether or not an exception would be made in this case, but this is to prevent someone taking over a forum without an admin's consent. I know I have plenty of forums I no longer use, but wouldn't want someone else to take over because they want to revive it, and that's the reasoning that PB uses for this policy. There have been plenty of people who come to support asking for help in logging back into forums that they forgot about / abandoned years ago, and PB wants to be certain that admins have that opportunity.