Let me get this straight. You want to archive this site because of a thread where they talk shit about another forum and you're not embarrassed by that fact.
Who cares let people do what they like
That's fine. Except that this is a group decision given this is nearly 20 years of content? No one owes them an archive just so they read reruns of them talking shit about another forum. Want to talk shit about reee? Fine. Do it. But when this site dies and you beg for an archive of nearly twenty year old material people have the right to ask you "why the fuck do you need it? And why won't you let our past fucking die already?" You will have a serious wall of objection. So no, we shouldn't let people do what they like and any attempt to archive this site should be rebuffed and questioned with legitimacy.
If you cannot understand that you can kindly fuck off.
You're angry at people in your head again. (And sounding like a progressive again.)
Nobody begged for an archive or felt they were owed one. Demi said he wasn't going to do it, all I did was offer that if the problem was setting one up and maintaining it I would do so (alongside the alt-Bore in some way) but in order to do that I would need the minimum effort of having the database exported. (Something that can be done with one click into a zip file.) I was not demanding anything, merely offering a solution to a potential issue.
Although I have no obsessive need to preserve the forum (and I get anxiety if I go to read something I wrote older than a few weeks) if you'd like to know why I might want to do this it's pretty simple: I think it's an unabashed good thing to preserve history and knowledge. I think it's a foolish belief to pretend you can erase and escape the past, and even more so to presume you know what should be memory holed. In the other thread you expressed your gratitude at members of the forum giving you the impetus to change for the better, but we cannot change for the better if we forget both our rights and wrongs of the past beholden to reflecting only upon our fading inaccurate memories of events.