I don't understand why you'd flush your money like that, Kev. It wouldn't help to mitigate many (if any) of the problems you've identified with this board, you'd be giving the Internet free reign to dine on your bandwidth (the "free journal site" business model is a dog that won't hunt), and you'd probably have this new site absolutely explode once the blogging community at large catches its scent. I think it's noble and magnanimous of you to make the gesture, and you're a better man than I, but I guess I don't quite understand your goals or why you feel obligated to do something like this. If a community chooses to pick up and build a new tent, let them build their own.