I lurked, followed and posted on adkforum for a while. I thought the moderation was pretty heavy handed. The only thread I ever started got deleted before there was a single response. In a PM, I asked one of the moderators what was going on. His response:
"Not that you did anything wrong, but we've had a lot of threads that have gone south lately, with the usual gang of suspects jumping in and and doing their best tabloid newspaper editorial imitations. As a result, your post got zapped."
That really rubbed me the wrong way. Come on...they deleted my thread because...wait...I'm still not sure why. Because some other threads went south? CMAFB.
With regard to using my blog...hey I'd love to have more people following Harvey Road. It's got a pretty meager following - especially in summer. But I'm not sure the blog format lends itself to forum usage. I think I'm the only one who can start a thread. There might be a way work around it.
I still think we should hope Greg finds a buyer.
If not, there are lots of free forum software packages and hosting options out there. You just need someone with some time to manage the thing.