Hi all,

Been interesting reading the boards over the last couple of days. I just wanted to thank a couple of the folks that stood up to offer some defense of my role as Restarter. Some history most don't know... I was part of the team that tried to resurrect Bolt after it went into Bankruptcy in 2007. We invested a lot of money and time to rebuild but unfortunately it was a futile cause that near bankrupted me. I said to myself at the time, "I never want to hear the word Bolt…

Members of Bolt3, we have some sad news – Bolt3 is coming to an end. After supporting this community since 2009 we are now nearly 5 years down the road. Despite having good intentions, our limited resources have stymied all efforts to revive the original spirit of Bolt.com and we are now at an end.

In these last 5 years we’ve gone through a lot with Bolt3, including two separate moderator civil wars (where we’ve had to come in to fix the mass deletions of our moderator communities…