I shall explain what happened. Apologies to the Mods if this post is inappropriate, I'm sure you will let me know
I am a member of a pregnancy forum and I shall not give the address for obvious reasons. Basically, the owner of this forum decided that she didn't want to run it anymore. So she agreed to hand it over the Administrator who in effect had been running it anyway. She then sent out an email to all the members of the forum explaining that the site was going to be transferred to a new web address.
Now this email was inadvertantly sent to a woman who used to be a member of the forum but had been banned because she was rather nasty to a number of people. She then set up a rival forum. Now once this woman received this email, she offered the site owner a load of money to take the site off her hands and she accepted this offer, even though she had agreed to give it to the administrator. This happened 3 days ago but the site owner didn't bother to tell the administrator that she was selling it to the owners of the rival forum.
So yesterday there was a post put on the forum by the new "administrator" (soon to be site owners) saying that they had taken over etc etc. They had stripped the previous administrator of her status and basically stabbed her in the back. She new nothing of this takeover and was assuming that she would be taking over etc.
Because of the way in which she was treated, there was a massive backlash by all the members who have now moved over to the new forum that the administrator has set up on another domain.
Now here is the main bone of contention. Because the members have moved to the new site, they now want their accounts deleting and they want to remove their childrens pictures from their posts. But, the new Administrator has removed the Edit function, so no pics can be removed, and they are refusing to close our accounts until the new ownership has been finalised.
Now the board has been closed, so everyone is very worried about what is happening with their data etc.
Sorry for the long post but thought you would like to know what was going on!