Give it to me Raw is Shutting Down

[PaleoPhil]

http://www.giveittomeraw.com/profiles/blogs/give-it-to-me-raw-is-shutting-down

I received an email that the Give It To Me Raw forum is shutting down:

On 07/12/12 5:07 PM, Give it to me Raw wrote:
> Hi everyone, Dhru here.
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> After a few months of thinking about it, I've decided to shut Give it to me Raw down. I'm really sorry. Please watch this video for a full explanation (http://www.giveittomeraw.com/profiles/blogs/give-it-to-me-raw-is-shutting-down).
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> The site will be shutting down in 30 days [on July 26th, 2012.].
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> If you are looking for an amazing raw food inspired community, I suggest signing up for rawfoodrehab.ning.com (http://rawfoodrehab.ning.com/). The site is run by my friend Penni Shelton and she is amazing. They are always open to quality people joining.
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> Thanks for sticking around as long as you did.
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> Much love,
> Dhru

Tyler, you might want to remove the GITMR forum link from:
http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/journals/list-of-other-rvaf-diet-forums/msg21359/#msg21359

The last time I had checked in I noticed the activity there had dwindled way down from what it had been. I hadn't been active myself on it in months and it looks like they had already deleted my account access due to inactivity anyway, though my profile and posts were still there, so if you have stuff there that you want to save, you probably still can, even if you haven't been active.

At 1:33 in this video, the founder of the forum,  Dhru, talks about how the forum started getting a lot of people who wanted to debate raw foods instead of learn from one another, and say things like "This is the right thing to do," "No, you can't do this," "You have to be vegan," and "debating with a mean-spirited vibe".
Good Bye GI2MR
After being invited to join that forum by a member there, I did find the militant vegan stuff to be a turn off, though it was never as bad as at 30BAD. If I had perused the forum extensively first and saw that stuff, I doubt I would have joined. As it turned out, I did learn a few interesting things and had some interesting discussions with some good people.

[Edit: I re-activated my account at GITMR to post a link to this forum, in case any there are interested.]

[Dorothy]

Ah - where we met Phil!

I'm glad he took responsibility for not moderating. That was the one real problem - no moderator. All the problems could have been easily handled by a moderator. He didn't walk his talk. He didn't stand by his intention of not letting others bully people that ate raw differently and that's what really blew the place up. He also could have easily passed on the responsibility to one or more other people that wanted the site to continue the way he did when it was still strong and positive. I watched it happen and was still there over a year ago when he decided to give up totally - but it took him a year to finally close it down. I wonder why.

He seems flaky imho. He started something and didn't see it through nor find someone else to do it for him and adversely affected the entire raw community. That's the way I see it.