Interestingly enough, many of the people who gray boxed and caused all the trouble on the Welch forum were part of another private forum. I always had the feeling that while they were disrupting Topix, their main goal was to recruit for their private forum.
That was Kookoo's schtick. I have been to her boards after I met her and they were nothing to write about, just a handful of people and their way of doing things were outdated ( just like their forum system) by then, such as personal email, the PM on Topix was a better mode of communication and the iphone and ipad, formerly the laptop enabled many of us to post wherever we wanted. They came late to that game. I do not use email anymore except to register and no longer confined to a huge PC in the living room, been that way for awhile. I think Kookoo figured it out in 2015 that is was possible to post elsewhere and that technology been around for awhile.