Policefans.org
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[edit] Introduction
policefans.org is a fansite for The Police founded and run by sockii. The site currently features a message board for members, and there are plans to expand the site to feature a Police wiki as well as potentially other projects. The motto of the site is "by the fans, for the fans", as it is an unofficial site run without any commercial intent or purpose and provided as an alternative to the official site for the band. The project originally began out of member frustration at ThePolice.com, where many members of the official site and fanclub were dissatisfied with what they had received for their $100 memberships in 2007 and were uncertain if they would renew their memberships, if an option was even offered to do so in 2008. When no information was provided by administrators at ThePolice.com for several months as to what would happen with renewals, the new forum at policefans.org was launched so that members would have a venue to stay in contact if they did not renew at the official site. ((sockii))
[edit] Moderators
- sockii is the primary site admin for both the overall domain and the messageboard forum. The messageboard operates with additional moderators for each topic, generally featuring 2-3 moderators per sub-forum.
[edit] Site history
- The domain policefans.org was registered by sockii on January 11, 2008.
- The messageboard forum was publicly launched on January 18, 2008.
- In early February 2008, there was some controversy and discussion over the perceived biases of those running the site as well as the active members of the site, as well as how it compared to other Police-related fansites such as StingUS.[1]
- PoliceWiki was publicly launched as part of Policefans.org on April 1, 2008.
[edit] Members
- As of January 24, 2008 the messageboard had 145 members.[2]
- As of November 3, 2008, the messageboard had 378 members.[3]
