Well, it's more of an idea. And to make sure everyone knows this before I start, I'm not trying to start a revolt or anything. I'm merely trying to coordinate with others already leaving and come up with a good plan of action. And also, the main reason why we're leaving isn't only because of Jeff's firing, it's because as long as CNET controls GameSpot, they can't be completely trusted.

All these people are canceling their GameSpot subscriptions and leaving the site for good right? Even a whole bunch of unions are closing down and leaving. I believe I want to want to move my union also. I can't be associated with a company like CNET after this. And for the main reason, don't you think it would be sad if everybody on this site just went their separate ways never to see each other again?

I thought of a way to prevent this from happening. I also thought of a great domain name for this. I was thinking about getting it and we could set up a separate forum from GameSpot's. It would have all the necessary boards on it. We could even link to Systemwars.com instead of making a board for that. Besides replicating the main GS boards, then we could have a sub-section for all the unions that wanted to move over to this site. We could supply temporary forums for their unions until they develop a website of their own, and even after they leave, we can link to their new website instead of a forum for them. For example, I could move the HCU into its own separate board on this site until we develop a real website for it. I know a lot of leaders that want off the site, but don't really know how they would get off. Wouldn't it be great if we could help them all out?

This way, everybody can stick together instead of going separate ways. We'd need to set it up real fast though, and I mean while this is still being argued over in the forums. That's the only way we'll be able to spread the word about it. Everybody is still up in arms about it, so they'll easily advertise it for us. For example, I remember when I first created the Unions: Version 2 thread and sent out a telegram to all my members asking them to support it, and if anyone was a union leader to send out a telegram to their members too. This one telegram started a chain reaction that resulted in thousands of supporters. Imagine how we could advertise this thing? Sigs, telegrams, threads, blog posts, etc... Everyone would be willing to spread the word, and because of it, a lot of people would get the message and either come or stay here.

We'd need to try and convince other GS moderators to come over too, that way we'll have order on the new forums, and not one where users think they can do anything. It could start with just a regular forum separated into sections to speed things up creating it. Then after all the advertisements are out of the way and people start coming over, then we can try making it look better.

The problem is that this is not a task that I can do myself, since I know nothing about installing boards on websites. I'd be willing to help out in the transition and maybe even management, but if this is going to be done, other people interested in helping need to post in this blog RIGHT NOW and start talking about it.We'll need somebody that can setup the forum for sure.

It would be something like this. You go to the site, and it will just be a forum to start out with...

General Forums:
- General Games Discussion
- Welcome Newbies
- Off-Topic Discussion

Platform Forums:
- PC Games
- PC Hardware Discussion
- PlayStation 2
- PlayStation 3
- Sony PSP
- Xbox
- Xbox 360
- GameCube
- Nintendo Wii
- Nintendo DS
- Game Boy Advance
- System Wars

Special Interest Forums:
- Sports Game Dicussion
- General Hardware Discussion

Support Forums:
- Site Enhancements & Feedback
- Technical Support
- Ask the Mods

GameSpot Unions:
- The HeadCrab Union
- Union Leader Council
- Age of Empires Union
- etc...

With the union forums, these would be temporary or permanent ones based on what the leader of that union wants to do. Say a leader contacts us and wants a forum for his union. We create it and add it to the list, we give that leader admin powers only for that forum and not the others and then we let them go from there. They can announce on their union to move to the new forum, and then they can stay there until they develop a site of their own.

Tell me what you guys think about this idea, and start discussing it if it sounds like something we should do..